True or False: In a recent survey, the majority of subjects admitted that they only check news occasionally.
What is true?
100
In a recent survey, 50% of subjects agreed that this social media source is a rapidly growing source of news.
What is Twitter?
100
Is news telecast considered new or old media?
What is old media?
100
This type of print news has recently moved its business to online websites and electronic versions to entertain people.
What are magazines?
100
APA stands for what?
What is American Psychological Association?
200
What percentage consider Hollywood news as breaking news?
What is fifty-seven percent? 57% of participants either strongly disagree or disagree that celebrity gossip and Hollywood news are considered current event news.
200
What is the percentage of people using a smartphone to obtain news?
What is ninety-six percent? 96% of the participants claimed to have this device, which assists in retrieving breaking news and keeping up with social media.
200
True or False: The highest mean number for being afraid of their surrounding was found in people who received their news from local television.
What is true? The highest mean number for being afraid of their surrounding was found in people who received their news from local television while the majority of users who used the internet (social medias) had almost no feeling of risk (Weitzer et al., 2004).
200
Which is more credible: online news sites or newspapers?
What is online news?
Many prior researchers have found out that online news was rated more credible than television, although less credible than newspapers (Kiousis, 2001).
200
How do most Americans get their news?
According to Hsiang, Mengchieh, Lewis and Nan (2010), most Americans get their news using both new and traditional sources.
What is new sources and traditional sources?
300
Is celebrity or Hollywood gossip considered news?
What is no?
According to a recent poll, this type of gossip and news is not considered news by the majority of poll takers.
300
This company bought out and acquired Tumblr earlier this year.
What is Yahoo?
300
This satirical news show is currently hosted by John Oliver while its original host is filming a movie in the Middle East.
What is the daily show?
300
These three newspapers have a circulation of 100,000 people in the city of Boston.
What are the Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, and the Boston Herald?
300
When doing research online, what is one proper web address endings (i.e. .com, .org) that are considered to be the most reliable?
What is ".edu" and ".gov"?
400
According the a recent survey, the majority of subjects agreed that this type of news is considered current events, despite its small impact on real world issues.
What are sports?
400
During the Boston Marathon Bombings, this news source was tweeting false information regarding the amount of injuries and deaths.
What is the New York Post?
400
This American was the first news television anchor, anchoring CBS's first nightly broadcast in the mid 1900s. His show later became known as the CBS Evening News.
Who is Douglas Edwards?
400
This was the first American newspaper, first established by James Franklin.
What is The New England Courant?
400
This style of reference is the most commonly used in communication based bibliographies.