Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Commercial bias in the media is a result of the growing concentration of corporate ownership of the media.
2. Fifty percent of Americans still list the newspapers as one of their primary sources of news.
3. Members of the Baby Boomer generation typically rely upon the television to get their news.
4. According to Nielson, the average American now spends only two hours a day watching live television.
5. In the 1890s William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer waged a tabloid war that ultimately gave rise to yellow journalism.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
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a. Oil revenue has benefitted a few considerably and has benefitted all Nigerians somewhat. b. Oil revenue has helped most Nigerians escape poverty. c. The collapse of the oil industry in Nigeria has been devastating to the Nigerian economy. d. Most oil revenue goes only to a small segment of the population.
____________________ campaigning stresses the opponent's weaknesses
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In what way is the United States a representative democracy?
a. citizens allow a self-appointed elite to make decisions for them b. citizens decide laws and policies directly in mass meetings c. citizens choose small groups of people to make laws and policy for them d. citizens elect a president who had absolute power to make decisions for them
__________ is the process of allotting congressional seats to each state according to its proportion of the population
a. Apportionment b. Appropriations c. Gerrymandering d. Redistricting