Author Question: The topics that get the most coverage in the news media at any point in time are the same ones that ... (Read 113 times)

deesands · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

The topics that get the most coverage in the news media at any point in time are the same ones that most people tell pollsters are the most important problems facing the country. What is this effect called?

a. investigative journalism
b. agenda setting
c. agenda deconstruction
d. political structuring

Question 2

The book states that, In 2009, Michael Jackson accounted for 60 percent of television news shows during the two days following his death, far more coverage than the mass antigovernment demonstrations in Iran. This is an example of what?

a. bias
b. agenda setting
c. nationalism
d. infotainment