Which of the following statements is true about media?
A) Following World War II, newspapers became the dominant form of communication.
B) The radio has supplanted the Internet as the most popular medium of communication in the world today.
C) Beginning about 1950, the circulation of the newspaper began to decline steadily.
D) Film and radio displaced print media in the early twentieth century.
E) Radio, television, and print media remain important to American politics and government.
Question 2
Which of the following statements is true of concentrated ownership of media?
A) There is substantial evidence that corporations that own media significantly influence reporting.
B) The owners of media outlets air information that could be damaging to their advertisers if they earn profits.
C) If only one or two companies own a city's newspaper and its TV stations, these outlets present a diversity of opinion.
D) The owners of media outlets are unlikely to publicize views that they disagree with politically.
E) Concentrated ownership may be a more serious problem at the national level than at the local level.
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