The corporate interests of the companies who own the media outlets are thought to be responsible for this bias regarding the media?
What is conservative?
100
The desire to produce content that will gain the highest ratings or readership is the source of what among political journalists?
What is deep bias?
100
National conventions are events in which parties formally nominate their candidates for this.
What is presidency?
100
This allowed labor unions to form and guaranteed their right to strike.
What is the Clayton Act?
100
This group uses their policy expertise to make themselves indispensable to politicians.
What is Lobbyist?
200
People only pay attention to media coverage that is consistent with their own political preferences because the media typically has little influence on this?
What is public opinion?
200
Partisan newspaper gave way to this.
What is the penny press?
200
While these two political parties have dominated American politics, they have also seen competition from a wide variety of third parties.
What is Democrat and Republican?
200
The U.S has a "single member, plurality" system, often referred to as this.
What is winner-take-all?
200
The Christian Coalition is an example of this.
What is conservative interest group?
300
Ku Klux Klan rally was presented as free speech and viewers were generally tolerant of the rally. However, if the story was presented as a law and order issue, public tolerance for the rally decreased. This is an example of what?
What is framing?
300
A journalist guarantees that a source will not be identified in any way when they interview someone on this particular subject.
What is deep background?
300
A citizen's personal affinity for a political party, which results in the citizen voting for candidates of that political party, is known as this.
What is party identification?
300
A shifting of party coalition groupings in the electorate that remains in place for several elections.
What is realignment?
300
Many groups compete for and share power according to this theory.
What is Pluralist?
400
Targeting media at specific segments of the population is called what?
What is narrowcasting?
400
Blogs are an example of this type of journalism.
What is citizen?
400
A delegate to the Democratic's Party's national convention that is reserved for an elected party official, whose vote at the convention is not pledged to individual candidates.
What is superdelegate?
400
Labor unions and trade associations are examples of this type of interest group.
What is economic?
400
Filing amicus curiae briefs is the way that interest groups do what to the federal courts?
What is lobbying?
500
The ability of the media to influence public opinion about which issues the government should address is referred to as this.
What is agenda setting?
500
This describes newspaper coverage under yellow journalism.
What is sensationalized?
500
Party members were recruited by this "machine" with tangible incentives.
What is political?
500
Blue collar workers and trial lawyers would more than likely be apart of this group.
What is Democrat?
500
This houses candidates positions on issues important to the interest group that distributes them.