The advent of cable and satellite television providers has had all of the following effects EXCEPT ______.
a. increasing dramatically the number of channels available to viewers
b. increasing the quality of news available to viewers
c. creating fierce competition for viewers
d. encouraging broadcasters to focus on narrow audiences
e. blurring the lines between news and entertainment
b. increasing the quality of news available to viewers
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Lengthy state constitutions create problems for states, which include the
a. fear of challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court. b. need for state courts to rule on conflicting provisions. c. burden of increased legal costs that are passed on to business interests. d. high costs of revision.
The primary concern of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to
a. improve the internal validity of the research design. b. insure the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in research. c. protect the welfare of human participants. d. insure that research proposals contain no risk to the participants.
In Texas, voluntary associations of local governments that perform regional planning activities, among other things, are called
A) metro governments. B) special districts. C) councils of government. D) interest groups.
Many of the sharpest cultural fault lines correspond to
a. capitalist-communist fault lines. b. Judeo-Christian-Islam fault lines. c. communitarian-cosmopolitan fault lines. d. democratic-authoritarian fault lines.