1. The historical account of freedom of the press reveals that in return for the special privileges granted to it, the media is expected to provide public benefit in the form of timely, relevant, accurate information that informs the public understanding.
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True
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2. A clear distinction must be drawn between a story being in the public interest and a story that interests the public.
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True
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3. Police body cameras and bystander videos of incidents involving police and citizens have given the news media an entirely new source of information about actual police practices. The availability of video footage content has not affected the way police or media frame these incidents.
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False
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4. The media tend to deal in binary oppositions, that is, to present events as normal and reasonable rather than as choices between good and evil, deviant, dangerous, or sick.
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False
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5. Manipulation is ______.
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Any intentional and successful influence of a person by non-coercively altering the actual choices available to the person
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6. After unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in 2013, the social movement “Black Lives Matter” was launched. A study of local newspaper accounts of police-involved shootings before and after this launch, news media continued to accept official police accounts as definitive and still reported victims’ criminal histories and past conduct they found relevant to the victims’ death.
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True
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7. Serving the public well can also extend to enhancing ______ of crimes like homicide and avoiding formulaic approaches in reporting them.
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Public knowledge
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8. A recent study of rape myths in comic books determined that rape myth(s) were reinforced in the comics that were analyzed. Which myth(s) did the authors find were supported?
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All of the above
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9. When harm is caused, an assessment of ______ for that harm will usually be made.
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Moral responsibility
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10. ______ between police and the media is now a norm worldwide.
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Cooperation
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11. Which of the following illustrate the point that high profile stranger sex offender cases are given prominence, suggesting that these individuals pose the highest risk?
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Newspapers provide inaccurate and misleading material about a subject they decide is newsworthy.
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12. Public perceptions reflect the message given by much of the media that the crime rate is always rising and the criminal justice system is always ______.
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Too soft on crime
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13. According to the portrayal of crime in the media, crime is the product of ______.
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Individual choice
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14. Women who kill are commonly framed by the media as being extra ______ because they have subverted the conception of the nurturing and emotional mother or passive and cooperative wife.
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Deviant
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15. Rome (2006) presents a process model showing how media imagery creates and blends with stereotypes to perpetuate the image of the criminal black male. Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in the process he identifies?
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The public compose conceptual summaries of media depictions of crime for the sake of convenience, and these become symbolic of family member's criminality.
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16. This chapter explains that the concept of “truth” in journalism is problematic. One scholar, Lawrence, suggests that journalistic ______ is something of a myth because ______ becomes reporting what happened in a way that is least likely to be criticized by those in power.
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Objectivity; “objectivity”
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17. ______ relates to a specific context and a defined task.
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Specific competence
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18. The movement toward ethics in journalism generally began as early as the ______ when the Philadelphia Public Ledger introduced “24 Rules” that stressed accuracy and fairness in reporting on the Civil War.
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1860s
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19. The media version of reality is determined by which two factors?
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The mediated portrayal of reality and agenda-setting
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20. Silverstone claims that which of the following constitutes a “site for the construction of a moral order”?
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Worldwide media
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