The Challenge of Democracy

In the United States today,the mass media

The traditional division of mass media into _________ has been made problematic by the Internet.

A poll of Americans who had seen or heard of Michael Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko found that _________ changed their mind and said health-care reform was more necessary.

A recent example of popular music conveying a political message is "Born This Way," by Lady Gaga,which focuses on

The first newspapers in the United States were

Newspapers did not move toward independent ownership and large circulation until

_________ occurs when a media outlet such as a magazine informs a relatively small number of group leaders who follow news in a specific area,and those leaders in turn mobilize their followers to put pressure on public officials.

​Journalistic norms of objectivity and accuracy grew,some say,because of 

Counting both print and online users,news readership of newspapers​

​To stay in business in the digital age,many newspapers have __________ their online content,with varying degrees of success.

___________ are group leaders who follow news in specific areas.​

The first media technology to make broadcast journalists into household names was

Despite new technological options,and despite criticism that in its current form it polarizes politics in an unhealthy way,_____ of Americans listen to traditional AM/FM radio weekly.

The Internet was started

__________ percent of surveyed adults indicated that they learned about the 2008 political campaign from comedy shows like The Daily Show,The Colbert Report,or Saturday Night Live.

More and more,cable news seems analogous to

​Early TV network news programs focused their evening news programs on

Some research indicates that people who watch partisan news become​

Reaction to a film posted on YouTube made by an Egyptian-American that mocked the Muslim prophet Muhammad is an example of the influence of new media platforms; that they

The amount of information online is so vast that most people rely on _________ to help them determine which news is real and important.​