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Your friend is incredibly cynical about political parties, politicians, and incumbent political leaders. How might this be related to the effects of the media?
 
  a. News reports feature a constant stream of negative messages about government and its ability to solve problems in the United States, which has turned her off politics.
  b. The consistent conservative bias in the media has turned her off politics.
  c. News reports about what government does are so optimistic that your friend thinks that they just cannot be real.
  d. Your friend realizes that the mainstream political parties own most of the private media and therefore it cannot be trusted.

Question 2

Choose the statement that best relates to objective journalism.
 
  a. Because political news does not make much sense without an interpretation of what it means, journalists are relied upon to provide this interpretation.
  b. If a reporter knows that an official is lying, she has to say so directly.
  c. Reporters have to identify an event like a town meeting as a staged event when reporting about it.
  d. Journalists should avoid explicit interpretations of the news.



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matt95

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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d




bucstennis@aim.com

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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