5 Written Questions

1. The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time.
2. Massive media conglomerates that control newspapers
3. Media programming on TV or the Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience
4. A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers, as well as the political agenda itself, is increasingly shaped by technology.
5. The use of detective-like reporting methods to unearth scandals.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Newspapers and magazines
   1. mass media
   2. broadcast media
   3. policy agenda
   4. print media
2. Short video clips of approximately 15 seconds; typically all that is shown from a politician's speech or activities on the nightly television news.
   1. print media
   2. beats
   3. sound bites
   4. chains
3. Meetings of public officials with reporters.
   1. policy entrepreneurs
   2. print media
   3. press conferences
   4. media event
4. An international news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction
   1. media event
   2. trial balloons
   3. talking head
   4. sound bites
5. Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House.
   1. chains
   2. mass media
   3. media event
   4. beats

5 True/False Question

1. policy entrepreneurs → The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time.
   

   True        False

2. media event → Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House.
   

   True        False

3. broadcast media → Newspapers and magazines
   

   True        False

4. talking head → A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera
   

   True        False

5. mass media → Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication.
   

   True        False