8.01 Review Media Roles and Functions Assessment

What does "watchdog" mean for the media?

• Gatekeeper/Agenda Setter
• gatekeeper, watchdog, and scorekeeper
• separate fact fron opinion, watch for bias and propaganda, and evaluate the source
• hold officials accountable

Does the media influence how people view politcians?

• Gatekeeper/Agenda Setter
• first amendment
• separate fact fron opinion, watch for bias and propaganda, and evaluate the source
• YES!!

The tools used to communicate issue to the public -

• hold officials accountable
• media
• journalism, reporting, blogs, photographs
• YES!!

Media includes -

• journalism, reporting, blogs, photographs
• hold officials accountable
• scorekeeper
• media

The functions of the media include -

• hold officials accountable
• scorekeeper
• gatekeeper, watchdog, and scorekeeper
• journalism, reporting, blogs, photographs

When evaluating media, you should -

• Gatekeeper/Agenda Setter
• separate fact fron opinion, watch for bias and propaganda, and evaluate the source
• hold officials accountable
• gatekeeper, watchdog, and scorekeeper

Freedom of the press is inlcuded in the -

• hold officials accountable
• journalism, reporting, blogs, photographs
• scorekeeper
• first amendment

The media's most influential role is -

• gatekeeper, watchdog, and scorekeeper
• separate fact fron opinion, watch for bias and propaganda, and evaluate the source
• YES!!
• Gatekeeper/Agenda Setter

Which role of the media influences a politician's repuatation?

• media
• separate fact fron opinion, watch for bias and propaganda, and evaluate the source
• scorekeeper
• gatekeeper, watchdog, and scorekeeper