Convergence is the term used to describe how the media link news content and its visual images to create specific audience perceptions.
a. true
b. false
Media scholars believe that media convergence reduces message pluralism.
a. true
b. false
Supporters of media convergence are very concerned about the problem of synergy.
a. true
b. false
Which of the following issue positions would be LEAST likely to appear in the state Democratic Party platform?
a) support for increased funding for education
b) support for increased funding for health care
c) support for a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion
d) support for a reduction in global warming
e) support for repealing Texas' right-to-work law
According to your text, which of the following
minority groups is MOST supportive of the Texas Democratic Party?
a) African Americans
b) Asian Americans
c) non-Hispanic whites
d) Native Americans
e) None of the abovethere is no difference among the four groups.
Which of the following developments aided liberal
Democrats in Texas in their competition with conservative Democrats?
a) elimination of the poll tax
b) defection of many conservative Democrats to the Republican Party
c) elimination of the white primary
d) All of the above.
e) None of the above.
Which of the following had the MOST influence
in the Texas Democratic Party in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?
a) a conservative group of large landowners and industrialists
b) a liberal coalition of working-class white voters joined by African Americans and Hispanics
c) small farmers and workers living in cities
d) labor union leaders and intellectuals
e) residents of the suburbs surrounding Texas cities
Which of the following reasons best explains
the dominance of the Democratic Party in Texas and other southern states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
a) The Republican Party was discredited in the eyes of most native white Texans because of its leadership role in American national government during the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
b) The Democratic Party was exceedingly popular among southerners because of the personal popularity of Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt.
c) The Republican Party was discredited in the eyes of most southerners because the Republican Party supported the poll tax and the white primary, devices that were used to keep minorities and poor persons of all races from voting.
d) Average personal incomes in the South were relatively low and the Democratic Party draws its greatest support from low- and middle-income voters.
e) Former slaves and their families were given the right to vote after the Civil War and they tended support the Democratic Party.
Profits in the media industries are typically higher compared to those in the manufacturing sector.
a. true
b. false
What does the term Solid South refer to?
a) the usual democratic sweep of southern state electoral votes in presidential election years
b) the strong presence of the Republican Party in Texas
c) the political view that seeks to preserve the political, economic, and social institutions of society against abrupt change
d) a nickname for the Republican Party
e) an identifiable faction within the Democratic Party
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