5 Written Questions

1. People who invest their political "capital" in an issue.
2. Newspapers and magazines
3. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication.
4. Short video clips of approximately 15 seconds; typically all that is shown from a politician's speech or activities on the nightly television news.
5. The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Television and radio
   1. broadcast media
   2. mass media
   3. print media
   4. narrowcasting
2. An international news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction
   1. trial balloons
   2. chains
   3. sound bites
   4. talking head
3. A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera
   1. print media
   2. chains
   3. policy agenda
   4. talking head
4. A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers, as well as the political agenda itself, is increasingly shaped by technology.
   1. sound bites
   2. chains
   3. high-tech politics
   4. trial balloons
5. Meetings of public officials with reporters.
   1. sound bites
   2. media event
   3. press conferences
   4. policy agenda

5 True/False Question

1. beats → Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House.
   

   True        False

2. investigative journalism → Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous.
   

   True        False

3. media event → Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous.
   

   True        False

4. chains → Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House.
   

   True        False

5. narrowcasting → Massive media conglomerates that control newspapers
   

   True        False