Chapter 8 Section 3: The Mass Media
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1. Weekly and monthly magazines like ________ and _________ published in-depth articles on ________ issues and gained a large, _______ _______ audience by the late 19th century.
2. Who were the muckrakers?
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1. _______ _______ practically invented media politics.
2. What type of media did Franklin Roosevelt use effectively and what two positions did he have while he used this type of media?
3. When was the first American newspaper printed and what was used to rapidly expand the number of newspapers in the nineteenth century?
4. What type of media replaced the print media?
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1. What does the first political cartoon mean about mass media?
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1. In the late 70s and 80s is television become more and more used? True or False.
2. Is television and other means of media used widely in politics? State how is this possible.
3. List the consequences of the media used for politics.
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1. Is it easy to locate any stereotypes? Give and example.
2. Can the media have an influence on children negatively? Explain
3. __________________ and _______exert undue influence when they are the only exposure a child has to certain groups.
4. It is not difficult to find TV shows that depict some well-established ___________.
5. Children also observe and are exposed to ___________by watching television, reading books and magazines, or even studying school textbooks that present stereotyped views of various groups of people.
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1. By____, two-thirds of American homes had at least one radio, twice as many as those with telephones
2. By the 1930s, how were most American given their news about what is happening in the world?
3. When did television began broadcasting?
4. Why was television criticized at more than a radio?
- Almost everyone gets his or her information about world, national, and local affairs from the _____________.
- The mass media not only report the results of ___________ surveys but also increasingly incorporate their own ________into their news coverage.
- More important, __________ and _________ help shape public opinion as well.
- What is a political agenda?
- The mass media is the vehicle through which the government does what?
- Why has the number of newspapers drop so sharply in the United States?
- What are the three major TV networks and who is one of their new network competitions?
- The _______________ of ______ was supposed to promote competition in the broadcast media. It eased the restrictions on the number of television stations a _____ _______ could own and lifted all limits on radio station ownership except to prevent control of a _______ or geographic area.
- What types of media are protected from government interference and by what?
1. Weekly and monthly magazines like ________ and _________ published in-depth articles on ________ issues and gained a large, _______ _______ audience by the late 19th century.
2. Who were the muckrakers?
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_edwards_government_11/0,7701,718784-,00.html
1. _______ _______ practically invented media politics.
2. What type of media did Franklin Roosevelt use effectively and what two positions did he have while he used this type of media?
3. When was the first American newspaper printed and what was used to rapidly expand the number of newspapers in the nineteenth century?
4. What type of media replaced the print media?
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/m/mass_media.asp
1. What does the first political cartoon mean about mass media?
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/curiosity-jack-leslie-the-media-and-politics.html
1. In the late 70s and 80s is television become more and more used? True or False.
2. Is television and other means of media used widely in politics? State how is this possible.
3. List the consequences of the media used for politics.
http://www.adl.org/what_to_tell/whattotell_media.asp
1. Is it easy to locate any stereotypes? Give and example.
2. Can the media have an influence on children negatively? Explain
3. __________________ and _______exert undue influence when they are the only exposure a child has to certain groups.
4. It is not difficult to find TV shows that depict some well-established ___________.
5. Children also observe and are exposed to ___________by watching television, reading books and magazines, or even studying school textbooks that present stereotyped views of various groups of people.
http://www.history.com/topics/radio-and-television
1. By____, two-thirds of American homes had at least one radio, twice as many as those with telephones
2. By the 1930s, how were most American given their news about what is happening in the world?
3. When did television began broadcasting?
4. Why was television criticized at more than a radio?