Which of the following statements is true about media?
A) Following World War II, newspapers became the dominant form of communication.
B) The radio has supplanted the Internet as the most popular medium of communication in the world today.
C) Beginning about 1950, the circulation of the newspaper began to decline steadily.
D) Film and radio displaced print media in the early twentieth century.
E) Radio, television, and print media remain important to American politics and government.
E
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A congress concerns itself mainly with legislative action; a parliament concerns itself with debate.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
If a state legislator provides only part-time service while holding another job, he or she is known as what kind of legislator?
A. Citizen B. Partisan C. Fiscal D. Lay E. Executive
Which of the following is a disadvantage of negative advertisements?
A) The more negative the television advertisements, the less likely they are to get free media coverage. B) Candidates and their campaign managers avoid negative advertisements because they do not help the candidates. C) Extreme ads may create sympathy for the candidate being attacked rather than support for the attacker, particularly when the charges against the candidate being attacked are not credible. D) They are less likely than positive ads to grab the viewers' attention and make an impression. E) They are less likely to focus on substantive political issues, and thus they do a poorer job of informing the voters about important campaign issues than positive ads do.
The writers of the Constitution devised the Electoral College as the method of choosing presidents because
A. the framers had a great deal of faith in the wisdom of the masses. B. that method would give weight to the preferences of ordinary people. C. direct election was impractical, due to the poor systems of communication and transportation that existed in the late 1700s. D. that method guaranteed a majority winner. E. that method would shield executive power from direct linkage to popular majorities.