Organized teams that attempt to gain control of the government by electing members to office.
What are political parties?
100
The Federalist party editor and owner of the Gazette of the United States
Who is John Fenno?
100
This was the first national cable channel.
What is HBO?
100
False, published statement of fact giving individual or other entity a negative image
What is Libel?
100
The man who owns News/Corp (the parent company of Fox News)
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
200
The first political party in the United states
What is the Federalist party?
200
Federalist passed this act that restricted the speech of critics of the governments
What is the 1798 alien and sedition acts?
200
This was the first Cable News Channel
What is CNN?
200
A blog that encourages political action.
What is a mobilizer?
200
The tendency to seek news that matches your political ideology.
What is informational self-segregation?
300
The second political party in the U.S. that opposed the federalist
What is anti-federalist party?
300
The person that ran the National Gazzete.
Who is Phillip Freneau?
300
The name given to the very first cable systems
What is Community Antenna Television?
300
A blog that focuses on commentary of an issue
What are Soapboxes?
300
The 1970s Commision that suggested cable would liberate news programs from objectivity because of an abundance of information.
What is the 1970s Sloan Commision?
400
The set of underlying orientations, ideas, and beliefs through which people understand and interpret politics
What is political ideology?
400
Reporting on important events, issues and people is the core mission of this profession
What is Journalism?
400
A policy instituted by the FCC that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable and balanced.
What is the Fairness Doctrine?
400
The Act that reduced barriers for ownership of multiple media outlets.
What is the 1996 Telecommunications act?
400
The act that required cable companies to pay broadcast companies for their signal and require cable companies to carry signal if signal is hard to get.
What is the 1992 Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act?
500
A political ideology that is suspicious of efforts to introduce new political formulas and economic arrangements and believes that a large powerful government poses a threat to citizens freedoms.
What is Conservative ideology?
500
According to this, the journalist job consists of reporting something called 'news' without commenting on it, slanting it, or shaping its formulation in any way.
What is the objectivity norm?
500
The tendency for people to extend scrutiny to information which contradicts their prior beliefs
What is the Hostile Media Phenomenon/ disconfirmation bias?
500
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble
What is the First Amendment?
500
A model of media effects where messages are predicted to have direct effect on opinion and behavior.