Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Realities you have personally experienced are known as experiential.
2. Your mind uses a set of instinctual and learned filters for sorting the mass ofincoming information and selecting which bits it will recognize and pass on to the thinking parts of your brain.
3. A small proportion of the political information in your head comes to you through the news.
4. The news media provides an accessible, inexpensive, communal, and reliable source of information to form experiential reality about politics and government.
5. The way the news media filters can favor certain cognitive frameworks over others.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
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How does government regulate the news media? Are these regulations beneficial to democracy?
What will be an ideal response?
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act left open the ability for wealthy individuals to donate __________, virtually unlimited sums of money, to state and local party organizations
a. hard money b. soft money c. election money d. PAC money
Which of the following explains why some people have suggested raising the eligibility age for Social Security?
a. Social Security has had a surplus for the past decade. b. Social Security benefits have been cut in recent years. c. Social Security may not be sustainable without cutting benefits. d. Social Security may not be sustainable given the current number of children in the program.
What are some of the major factors (political or otherwise) that influence the budget process?
What will be an ideal response?