Which of the following gave the most thorough and sustained coverage of the Downing Street memo?
a. FOX News
b. the New York Times
c. the Washington Post
d. the blogosphere
Question -2-How did the media respond to the report that Dick Cheney had shot a man in the face?
a. The media refused to run the story because they thought it was not credible.
b. The story was ignored for several weeks in deference to the Bush administration.
c. The media covered the story almost exclusively the day after the shooting.
d. The media covered the story frequently and in great detail over several days.
Question -3-Why does the coverage of foreign news harmonize well with official foreign policy?
a. because the media have a conservative bias that supports any status quo policy
b. because the media have a liberal bias that supports interventionism in international affairs
c. because the media reflect a nationalistic bias that generally places the United States in a good light
d. because the media are staffed by people who used to work for the U.S. Department of State
Question -4-Framing in the news involves __________.
a. deciding which stories are newsworthy
b. influencing people through news story interpretation
c. stripping a story of its context to avoid the appearance of bias
d. hiding a disreputable source in a credible news story
Question -5-When a journalist is given inside information by a government official it is called a __________.
a. spin
b. cushion
c. leak
d. spillover
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