False blog posts and tabloid stories that are, nontheless, so widely circulated that the mainstream media feel pressured to report them have been called __________, by at least one writer-journalist
a. “fake news”
b. “undernews”
c. “overnews”
d. “trash”
ANS: B
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a. Russia and China. b. the United States and France. c. Italy and Germany. d. Hungary and Poland.
A major consequence of the beat system of assigning reporters duties is
a. a decreased reliance on the authorities as sources of information. b. an increased emphasis on business and finance. c. fewer investigative reporters. d. All of the above are true.
A medical doctor is studying the effects of a drug on two groups of patients. For the first group, she administers the actual drug to determine if it has an effect on the patients’ condition. But for the second group, she administers a phony pill that has no properties. The phony pill administered to group two is known as a:
A. Dummy B. Bogus C. Placebo D. None of the above
Civil rights in colonial times roughly amounted to protections against arbitrary action by the distant British Crown and can be thought of as ______.
A. civil liberties B. limited government C. civic rights D. tyranny