Influencing Government

Television, radio, newspapers, social media, movies and books are all

• white noise

• electronic media

• mass media

• unimportant

Card stacking is a propaganda technique that

• presents all sides of an issue

• presents a single side of an issue

• ignores all issues

• creates new issues

Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favor that person or thing.

• True

• False

News should be bias.

• True

• False

Mass media plays an important role in exposing government misconduct. This role is called,

• Patrol

• Leak

• Intelligence

• Watchdog

Pollsters are employed by most presidents to conduct polls regularly.

• True

• False

It is important that poll questions are totally bias.

• True

• False

What is a professional media assistant for elected officials called?

• Press Secretary

• Media Secretary

• Mass Media Official

• Pollster

Which amendment to the US Constitution protects the media?

Write one, unbiased statement.