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Communication
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2014

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How much of the news in the news media originates from the work of pr people
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around 50%
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retail advertisers are also called (blank) advertisers
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Local advertising
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in general defamation that is written is libel, and if its spoken its slander
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TRUE
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public figures must prove what in defamation cases
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actual malice
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in prior restraint cases the courts tend to support the rights of
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the press
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the advice do not treat people as means to an end best reflects which ethical principle
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principle of self determination
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moderation is the key to moral virtue according to which principle
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principle of the golden mean
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the (blank) theory holds that people who view violent media content will be less inclined to behave violently themselves
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catharsis
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which of the following is the most likely to be studied by agenda setting researchers
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the new york times
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tabloids by definition are always sensationalistic in their news coverage
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false
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the world wide web is another name for the computer network officially called the internet
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false
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advertising is an important source of revenue for all mass media
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false
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people couldnt easily share music with each other until shawn fannings napster
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false
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a television programs share is typically a larger number than its rating
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true
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assume there are 100,000 people in wc, 20,000 are listening to radio, 2,000 are listening to WCUR what is its rating
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2
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assume there are 100,000 people in wc, 20,000 using radio, 2,000 listening to WCUR whats is its share
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10
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tv and radio stations have all of the following in common except
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-both are recieved by antenna

tv is reieved through cables
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which of these is not a trend affecting the media
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-growing diversity in media ownership
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which of these provides the clearest example of media demassification
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the golf channel
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which medium is present in the highest percentage of households
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radio
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there are more broadcast tv stations in the usa than there are radio stations
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false
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of the various communication contexts, media technology is only a part of the mass communication context
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false
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advertising is an important source of income for all media today
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false
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the tv program Survivor is an example of a
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message
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feedback is most limited in which communication setting
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mass communication
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when reading the new york times a person is most likely utilizing the (blank) function of media
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survielance
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at the individual level the functional approach is generally referred to as the (blank) model
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uses and gratifications
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unlike the telegraph, the telephone was revolutionary because it allowed people to communicate in real time over vast distances
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false
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where on the radio would you most likely find noncommercial radio stations
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-91.7 MHz
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record companies make more money when they see a digital track than when they sell a physical album
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false
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the motion picture industrys total box office revenue has dramatically declined over the last decade
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false
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most radio stations generate most of their income from which source of revenue
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local advertising
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rock music became part of the counterculture during the
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late 1960s - early 1970's
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the arrival of sound in films
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could have happened 10 years earlier
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companies selling items such as sailboats or farm equipmentto a specific region are probably ((blank) advertisers
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national spot
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broadcast tv will become fully digital in 2014
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false
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video on demand was slow to catch on in the US because
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complicated user interface
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the legal ID of wcu's student radio
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WCUR, West Chester
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the radio corporation of America established this the first radio network in the us
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NBC
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on december 24 1906 a few radio operators at seas were surprised to hear something besides morse code, they heard this mans voice
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Reginald Fessinda
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thomas edison invented the spinning recorder of sound
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phonograph
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who made napster
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shawn fanning
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they recorded the first and so far only record to be declared obscene by a federal judge
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2 live crew
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invented the cinematograph
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lumierre brothers
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in early movie theater this music would be played during silent films
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wurlitzer
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father of film grammar, made birth of a nation
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dw griffith
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transmitted the first electronic tv signal with a device he called the image disector
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philo farnsworth
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first show to be reguaryl shot on film instead of live in the 1950s
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I love Lucy
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in 1976 this time warner executive established the box office
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gerald levine
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his research found heavy viewers of tv violence were more fearful of a mean world
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george gerbner
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