American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition (Harrison)

Chapter 10: The Media

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
One of the difficulties of coping with twenty-first-century media is
A)a lack of information.
B)a lack of reliable information.
C)the need to sift good information from bad information.
D)All these answers are correct.
2
Which of the following does NOT count as media?
A)your roommate's blog posts
B)tweets from a mayor
C)your Facebook posts
D)It depends on your definition of media.
3
Bringing certain policies on issues to the public agenda through media coverage is called
A)spin.
B)framing.
C)information equilibrium.
D)priming.
4
Which of the following is true about Americans' trust of the media?
A)It has risen significantly since the 1970s.
B)It has declined significantly since the 1970s.
C)It has declined regarding the electronic media but increased regarding the print media.
D)It has increased regarding the electronic media but decreased regarding the print media.
5
One consultant has described opportunities to air one's views on the Internet as the opposite of
A)marketing.
B)political discussion.
C)free speech.
D)media.
6
Which of the following is NOT an example of how television politically socializes youth?
A)Sesame Street
B)American Idol
C) Scooby Doo
D)Arthur
7
Which of the following is true about yellow journalism?
A)The term refers to the media efforts to stir up fear in the public.
B)The term referred to the anti-Japanese media coverage during World War II.
C)The term refers to the tendency toward factual but dry coverage of political issues.
D)None of these answers is correct.
8
The efforts of journalists to expose the corruption of government and industry became known as
A)muckraking.
B)yellow journalism.
C)tabloid journalism.
D)new media.
9
Which of the following is most accurate about newspaper readership?
A)It increased and has stayed higher since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
B)It has remained stagnant for the past decade.
C)It has declined for decades, but the decline has accelerated since the proliferation of new media.
D)It has benefited from the growing number of local newspapers across the country.
10
Minority journalists are most likely to be employed at
A)small, local newspapers.
B)newspapers with large circulations.
C)alternative newspapers.
D)Very few minorities currently hold positions at newspapers.
11
The first politician to realize the value of radio as an instrument of political communication was
A)Theodore Roosevelt.
B)Franklin D. Roosevelt.
C)Winston Churchill.
D)John F. Kennedy.
12
One of the main reasons partisan talk radio has grown is the FCC's repeal of
A)the fairness doctrine.
B)the advocacy doctrine.
C)the public service doctrine.
D)None of these answers is correct.
13
Which of the following types of news broadcasts does NOT show an increase in its "every day" viewership over the past decade?
A)public television news
B)cable news
C)morning news
D)nightly network news
14
Which of the following is true about the percentages of Americans who listened to talk radio in 2008?
A)They were declining slightly.
B)They remained steady.
C)They were increasingly slightly.
D)They were increasing dramatically.
15
The inequality of access to computers and Internet connections is called
A)information disequilibrium.
B)net non-neutrality.
C)Internet subjectivity.
D)the digital divide.
16
A person who simultaneously consumes and produces information on the Internet is known as a(n)
A)omnisumer.
B)prosumer.
C)v-blogger.
D)conducer.
17
Which former Minnesota governor credits the Web for opening up the political process by enabling grassroots mobilization through e-campaigning, leading to his win?
A)Paul Wellstone
B)Hubert Humphrey
C)Rod Blagojevich
D)Jesse Ventura
18
Which of the following best defines the term blogosphere?
A)the bloggers who also regularly appear on other forms of media
B)a community, or social network, of bloggers
C)an insult directed toward bloggers by print and television journalists
D)a type of investigative journalism modeled after the muckrakers of the early twentieth century
19
The use of the Internet as a tool for grass-roots political organizing has become known as
A)net politics.
B)net-organizing.
C)netroots.
D)net advocacy.
20
The merging of various forms of media, including newspapers, television stations, radio networks, and blogs under one roof is called
A)infotainment.
B)networking.
C)narrowcasting.
D)convergence.
21
The Internet is an instrument that can potentially create significant incursions into Americans'
A)freedom of speech.
B)freedom of religion.
C)privacy.
D)All these answers are correct.
22
The idea that Internet traffic—e-mails, Web site content, videos, and phone calls—can be transmitted through the Internet pipeline without interference or discrimination by those who own or run the pipeline is called
A)information equilibrium.
B)Net neutrality.
C)Internet objectivity.
D)the digital divide.
23
A number of critics on the left charge that the media has a
A)political bias.
B)corporate bias.
C)religious bias.
D)class bias.
24
The 1996 Telecommunications Act did what to the communications industry?
A)increased competition
B)decreased competition
C)increased regulation
D)decreased regulation
25
One currently controversial topic about the media is whether Congress should
A)regulate the infrastructure of the Internet.
B)deregulate the infrastructure of the Internet.
C)regulate the infrastructure of talk radio.
D)deregulate the infrastructure of talk radio.
Harrison: American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition
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