Entertainment programs in contemporary media tend to distort portrayals of death because they use
a. selectivity and fantasization
b. realism and individuation
c. impossible situations
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 2In children's cartoons like Roadrunner, death is often depicted as
a. a natural part of living
b. an occasion for grief
c. an unrealistic phenomena that does not involve finality
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 3To speak of fantasized death in the media means that
a. death is frequently present in the entertainment media, but often in unrealistic ways
b. death is almost completely absent in the entertainment media
c. those who usually die are good guys, heroic figures
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 4Which of the following is most accurate?
a. media portrayed deaths most often focus on violent deaths
b. media deaths often focus on the deaths of so-called special persons rather than more ordinary people
c. death announcements in newspapers are paid for by survivors
d. the violent deaths portrayed in entertainment media are seldom accompanied by portrayals of grief
e. all of these
Question 5Death announcements are
a. an exception to the general rules of newsworthiness
b. different from obituaries
c. brief notices mentioning the fact of death, names of survivors, and plans (if any) for funeralor burial services
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 6Reports of deaths in the news media of contemporary society
a. are not governed by criteria of newsworthiness
b. are a highly selective portrait of death
c. emphasize ordinary people who die in ordinary ways
d. all of these
e. none of these
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