What is an event called that is purposely staged for the media and that is significant just because the media are there?

In 1960, one newspaper was sold for every two adults; by 2008, one paper was sold for every __________.

In 1934, Congress created which body to regulate the use of the airwaves?

Over 80 percent of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation is published by massive media conglomerates called __________.

In democracies, the primary interest of (publicly owned) media is __________.

The primary interest of (privately owned) media is __________.

Research suggests that the overriding bias in the news is one toward stories that __________.

As technology has enabled the media to pass along information with greater speed, news coverage has become __________.

Public officials often leak __________ to reporters to see what the political reaction will be.

The media’s emphasis on the slowly improving Obama economic situation in 2012 rather than the record number of long-term unemployed Americans is an example of __________.

Increasing public attention to specific problems is a core feature of the media’s __________ power.

What do network executives blame for the superficiality in media reporting?

Civil rights activists in the 1960s used the media to show Americans the injustice of the treatment of minorities, successfully placing the civil rights issue onto the __________.

The media act as a __________ between the people and policymakers.

Policy entrepreneurs are people who invest __________ in an issue.

The issues that attract serious attention from public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time are collectively referred to as __________ agenda.

People who invest their political capital in an issue are called __________.

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