Chapter 9
_____ _____ is the tendency of individuals to tune into and prefer information that supports their existing political beliefs.
What is "Selective Exposure"?
_______ is considered to be the first president to be skilled in using television for a political platform.
Who is "John F. Kennedy"?
This network has the slogan "Fair and Balanced".
What is "Fox News"?
____ _____ _____ is the sexist notion that women cannot be both professionally competent and feminine.
What is "Gendered Double Bind"?
____ _____ _____ is a belief held by political partisans that media coverage is biased against their side and is more favorable to the opposing party.
What is "The Hostile Media Effect"?
Dubbed "The Great Communicator", this president used television to speak with American audiences like a close friend.
Who is "Ronald Reagan"?
____ ____ _____ is the notion that news media organizations and journalist favor left-leaning agendas.
What is "Liberal News Bias"
______ & _______ are two of the most important factors female candidates are judged by the public on.
What is "Likability & Credibility"?
____ _____ is the psychological tendency to perceive messages through the lens of strong preexisting view points.
What is "Selective Perception"?
This social media platform was used by our 45th president to circumnavigate the press and build a following.
What is "Twitter"?
____ _____ is when the media are seen as displaying a consistent pattern of an issue that reliably favors one side.
What is "Ideologically or Politically based news bias"?
____ _____ ______ is when journalist focus on political candidate strategies and gamify political campaigns.
What is "Horse Race Coverage"?
____ _____ are characterized by symbolic attachments, linkage to core social values, certainty and extremity.
What is "Strong Attitudes"?
______ are artificial events contrived to gain media coverage.
What are "pseudo-events"?
_____ is an inference one arrives at after careful analysis of news.
What is "Bias"?
_____ offer a snapshot of public opinion in democracy.
What is "Polls"?
___ ____ is when information supporting a strong attitude is seen as valid or correct, and information that discounts a strong attitude is seen as wrong.
What is "Confirmation Bias"?
____ ____ are the modality by which candidates try to persuade voters.
What is "Presidential Campaigns"?
This is the number of criteria for news bias.
What is "5"?
_____ _____ is when journalist give candidates tough coverage at the beginning of a campaign cycle.
What is "frontrunner storyline"?