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| What are the opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed? |
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| What is the best way to take a polling? |
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| What gives everyone in the population a chance to be selected? |
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| What is a leading question? |
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| What is having a tv show and talking about a certain topic and then taking a vote and getting incorrect results? |
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| Biased/self-selecting sample |
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| What is an organized and consistent manner of thinking, feeling, and reacting with regard to people, groups, social issues, or more generally, any event in one's environment? |
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| What is an elaborately organized sets of political attitudes? |
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Ideology
(highly organized) |
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| What do attitudes and ideology tend to reflect? |
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| Who are ideologically extreme? |
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| What is the political attitude that shapes opinions and organizes other attitudes most consitently is a person's attitude toward the politcial party? |
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partisanship
(The way you feel about the two parties structures how you will view other things) |
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| What is the process of aquiring political attitudes and opinions (molding your beliefs)? |
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| What is it called when someone just doesn't care about something? |
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| What is choosing how to present a topic? |
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| What is choosing how a topic effects something? |
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| What is another word for group? |
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| What is considered to be a business that a lot of people don't see as a business? |
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| What is it called when newspapers only cost a penny? |
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| What is it called when newpapers dominated from 1883-1925? |
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| What is it called when there was sensational stories and screaming headlines in newspapers? |
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| What started the Spanish American War? |
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Yellow Journalism
(dubious claim that said that the USS Maine was sunk by Spanish mine) |
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| What is it called when the president could talk on the radio and the people could listen to him speak? |
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| What is an example of news spoken on the radio? |
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| What was it called when the television news had 3 major dominating national stations? |
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| The Era of broadcast news |
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| What required television stations to provide for equal access to candidates for office? |
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| Equal time provisions (gave the other party the chance to have the same amount of time to talk) |
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| What required local stations to devote a certain amount of time to public affairs (political) programming, and that such programming to be fair and balanced? |
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| Who prohibits cross-ownership of newspapers and local television stations from covering the same area? |
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| The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
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| What offered hundreds of viewing options to television viewers? |
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| Cable/Satellitle Television |
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| What is a blend of information and news? |
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| What is the amount of information a particular technology can economically provide its audience? |
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| What is it called when politicians give the media a story and they want something in return? |
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| Since we are on a 24 news cycle, we have a thirst for information. What is this refereed to as? |
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| What is the term the division of labor for news agencies? |
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| What is it called when reporters report on the same topic because they sit down in a room and get the most important information of the day? |
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| What is a type of journalism that doesn't have any substance to it? |
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| television-based journalism |
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