Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Thinking of news as a product in a competitive market helps account for the alacrity with which this industry has embraced innovations in communications technology.
2.When the three broadcast networks dominated the market, they bunched together in the political middle like candidates pursuing the median voter.
3.One of the dangers for the press is that the public mistrusts the information they get from the media more than any other source including the government.
4.Proving libel requires injured individuals to prove that a story was false and that a news producer acted with malice by publishing a damaging story it knew to be false.
5.The news media serve as strictly a neutral conduit for the flow of civic information to their intended audience.
1.true
2.true
3.false
4.true
5.false
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What did we learn from the results of the ?Harrisburg Pennsylvanian and Literary Digest polls?
A) that these were examples of scientific polling B) that straw polls and biased samples can result in inaccurate polls C) that most types of polling are highly accurate D) that phone surveys are the only accurate polls E) ?that newspaper surveys are the only accurate polls
The two-party system has worked in the United States, but not in Europe, because
A) ?Americans are more aggressive and less deferential. B) ?fewer Americans want to participate in party activities. C) ?Americans agree on enough issues to form broad coalitions. D) ?Americans are more economically conservative than Europeans. E) ?Europeans are less ideological than Americans.
The division of constitutionally assigned power to national and subnational governments, with different subnational governments (states or provinces) having distinct relationships with and rights in relation to the national government is known as
a. an asymmetrical federal system b. a symmetrical federal system c. a centralized system d. autonomous regions
What would you expect the outcome of this game to be?
A. I would expect both players to cooperate.
B. I would expect both players to defect.
C. Because there was more than one Nash equilibrium, it is difficult to say what the actual outcome of the game would be.