The sheer quantity and constant availability of information, which may cause media consumers to dismiss the significance of particular events, is known as
A. information priming.
B. information overload.
C. muckraking.
D. media framing.
E. infotainment.
Answer: B
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A) the legislature itself. B) an Ethics Commission recommendation. C) the comptroller of public accounts. D) an automatic cost of living adjustment.
When asked in a recent national poll whether federal spending should be "increased, decreased or kept about the same" for eighteen different purposes, respondents said that every category of spending should be maintained or increased EXCEPT
A) ?highways, military defense and foreign aid. B) ?welfare, unemployment aid and the space program. C) ?education, aid to the world's needy, and child care. D) ?military defense, unemployment aid, and aid to the world's needy. E) ?respondents believed every category of spending should be maintained or increased.
The idea that the largest wars will result from challenges to the top position in the status hierarchy is referred to as the __________.
A. security dilemma B. power transition theory C. hegemonic stability theory D. strategy of deterrence
When Martin Luther King, Jr. turned the focus of the civil rights movement to northern cities like Chicago, the movement
A) was invigorated and gained even more success. B) retained its popularity in the North. C) gained support among whites in the North. D) lost support among many northern whites. E) won great advances for blacks.