The number of corporations that supply the majority of news to Americans has shrunk from 50 in 1983 to just 6 today. This is a result of
A. media segmentation.
B. new media.
C. consolidation.
D. narrowcasting.
E. convergence.
Answer: C
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a. enhanced political and economic power of local governments. b. the coming to power of younger, better-educated, and more worldly leaders. c. the partial depoliticalization of the legal system. d. a growing middle class. e. growing political apathy and rising consumerism.
Daniel is a member of Tree for Life, a public-interest group that helps protect forests throughout the United States. It holds many demonstrations on the importance of forests and has representatives who lobby public officials for laws that impose strict restrictions on the rate of deforestation. In this scenario, Daniel is a member of a(n) _____
A) identity interest group B) ideological interest group C) professional interest group D) business interest group E) labor interest group
________ arise when people disagree about a problem or a public policy choice made to combat a problem.
A) Revolutions B) Political issues C) Social crises D) Governments E) Wars
Many critics of interest groups charge that the pluralist model of democracy favors the upper middle class and upper class of society because
a. poor people depend on government services and have fewer alternatives. b. those with more resources can and do support interest groups which are more likely to influence public policy to their financial advantage. c. wealthy people are less likely to join unions and therefore have greater choices in groups that they can support. d. they can afford to run for office or donate significant amounts to friends or family members who are running. e. since most wealthy people are older, they likely belong to powerful groups such as AARP.