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Changes in the Presidential Nomination Process
Types of Media systems
Media Regulation
The media marketplace
Journalism
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1968
Which Presidential election year spurred on changed in the Presidential nomination process?
100
British Broadcasting Corporation
What is an example of publicly owned media?
100
5-5-10
What is the rule that the FCC had with respect to the amount of community oriented /political broadcasts/public affairs programming before 1976?
100

The Penny Press

What was the first form of media which allowed newpaper publishers to make money?

100

The main theory explaining what becomes the news.

What is organizational theory?

200
Democratic Party
Which Party spurred on changes to the Presidential Nomination Process?
200

The Radio Act.

Which Act eventually led to the estabishment of the FCC?

200

Cable

What is the form of media not regulated for content by the FCC?

200
1 percent of the television viewing audience
What is one rating point?
200

Professional norms of autonomy and objectivity.

What are journalistic norms?

300
Chicago
Which city held the Democratic National Convention in 1968?
300

The agency responsible for setting and enforcing the requirements that broadcasters must follow to meet the public interest standard in the United States.

What is the FCC?

300

Radio Waves

What was used to justify FCC regulation?

300
210 local television markets
What is a DMA?
300

Form of journalism focusing on which candidate is ahead in the polls.

What is horserace journalism?

400
State and Local Party Organizations
Who controlled the presidential nominating process prior to 1968?
400
1967
What is the year that the Public Broadcasting System was established in the United States?
400

This Act allowed ownership of multiple TV stations

What is the Telecommunications act of 1996?

400
Circulation of major newspapers
What is decreasing?
400

Stories focusing on famous people, familiar issues, the United States, involving disaster or scandal.

What kinds of stories are more likely to be covered in the news?

500
Hubert Humphrey
Who was the Democratic Party nominee in 1968?
500
2 percent
What is the percent of the American television audience that PBS reaches.
500

This required broadcasters to present opposing sides on controversial issues.

What is the Fairness Doctrine?

500
early 1980s
When did cable take off?
500
The process of adjusting coverage of an issue according to the level of disagreement and debate about that issue among policy elites
What is indexing?