Quiz 2 ** NEED TO CONFIRM THESE ANSWERS**
According to Gray, supportive intertextuality?
a. Encourages a critical approach to political messaging in television shows and news
programming
b. Determines how truthful messaging in television about politics has to be in order to not
be fake news
c. Attacks or subverts the meaning or power of a particular show or presentation
d. Suggests advertisements, interviews, trailers, etc. serve to promote or support political
TV shows
To decide which information and stories to tell the public, political news often relies on Stuart
Hall et al’s “primary definers” who are
a. Socially defined groups whose role in society is to encourage a focus on the most
important political and social issues
b. Influencers of political, social and economic issues and priority for the political
community in which they are dominant voices
c. Political and corporate leaders who can define the parameters of a topic and set the
agenda for what topics are worthy of attention
d. Trend-setters who determine which news is worthy of being discussed and debated, but
also prevent more controversial stories from making the news
In Lotz’s ‘network era’ voters get their political information from
a. Steaming networks
b. News networks
c. Friend networks
d. Social media networks
In Political tv, suspense, moral legibility, space of innocence and realism are four components of
William’s framework for analyzing?
a. Dramatic intertextuality
b. Serialized drama
c. Political parody
d. Melodrama
Which is not part of Scheuer’s ‘sound bite society’ framework for analyzing political TV?
a. Dog-whistling and virtue-signalling
b. Appeals to narrow moral-political impulses
c. Blunt emotional messages
d. Filtering out complex ideas
, According to Ellis, political TV in the form of drama, for example, serves the function of?
a. Raising viewers’ expectations that politicians can solve all political issues
b. Distracting from viewers from their own lives to see how much worse off everyone on TV
is going
c. Encourages viewers to consider ways to think through current political and social issues
d. Informing viewers as to the right way to think about political issues and problems
Tryon points out that this 2010 Supreme Court case changed the laws to remove limits on
political spending by non-profit and for-profit corporations?
a. Citizen’s united vs federal election committee
b. Political lobbyists of America vs national voter protection agency
c. Corporations vs the US government
d. American civil liberties union (ACLU) vs federal election regulation agency (FERA)
Tryon suggests that advertisements, interviews, trailers, etc. serve to promote or support
Political TV shows, and so would be categorized as Grey’s?
a. Supportive intertextuality
b. Critical intertextuality
c. Promotional intertextuality
d. Peripheral intertextuality
In the USA, Tryon notes that the Federal Communication Commission has a responsibility to
ensure network TV broadcasting?
a. All of the answer choices are correct
b. Provides a diversity of viewpoints
c. Serves the public interest
d. Provides content that serves local needs
Which of these is NOT part of the description of political news’ “primary definers”?
a. Set the agenda for what topics are worthy of attention
b. Determine how those topics should be covered
c. Vet the content of topics discussed
d. Political and corporate leaders
e. Define the parameters of a topic
According to Tryon, Political TV dramas that “engage with the moral and ethical questions that
emerge for individuals or groups who are tasked with protecting the nation’s citizens from
attack, in most cases by external threats” are melodramas of?
a. National security
b. Defence security
c. Safety security
d. Ethical security
According to Gray, supportive intertextuality?
a. Encourages a critical approach to political messaging in television shows and news
programming
b. Determines how truthful messaging in television about politics has to be in order to not
be fake news
c. Attacks or subverts the meaning or power of a particular show or presentation
d. Suggests advertisements, interviews, trailers, etc. serve to promote or support political
TV shows
To decide which information and stories to tell the public, political news often relies on Stuart
Hall et al’s “primary definers” who are
a. Socially defined groups whose role in society is to encourage a focus on the most
important political and social issues
b. Influencers of political, social and economic issues and priority for the political
community in which they are dominant voices
c. Political and corporate leaders who can define the parameters of a topic and set the
agenda for what topics are worthy of attention
d. Trend-setters who determine which news is worthy of being discussed and debated, but
also prevent more controversial stories from making the news
In Lotz’s ‘network era’ voters get their political information from
a. Steaming networks
b. News networks
c. Friend networks
d. Social media networks
In Political tv, suspense, moral legibility, space of innocence and realism are four components of
William’s framework for analyzing?
a. Dramatic intertextuality
b. Serialized drama
c. Political parody
d. Melodrama
Which is not part of Scheuer’s ‘sound bite society’ framework for analyzing political TV?
a. Dog-whistling and virtue-signalling
b. Appeals to narrow moral-political impulses
c. Blunt emotional messages
d. Filtering out complex ideas
, According to Ellis, political TV in the form of drama, for example, serves the function of?
a. Raising viewers’ expectations that politicians can solve all political issues
b. Distracting from viewers from their own lives to see how much worse off everyone on TV
is going
c. Encourages viewers to consider ways to think through current political and social issues
d. Informing viewers as to the right way to think about political issues and problems
Tryon points out that this 2010 Supreme Court case changed the laws to remove limits on
political spending by non-profit and for-profit corporations?
a. Citizen’s united vs federal election committee
b. Political lobbyists of America vs national voter protection agency
c. Corporations vs the US government
d. American civil liberties union (ACLU) vs federal election regulation agency (FERA)
Tryon suggests that advertisements, interviews, trailers, etc. serve to promote or support
Political TV shows, and so would be categorized as Grey’s?
a. Supportive intertextuality
b. Critical intertextuality
c. Promotional intertextuality
d. Peripheral intertextuality
In the USA, Tryon notes that the Federal Communication Commission has a responsibility to
ensure network TV broadcasting?
a. All of the answer choices are correct
b. Provides a diversity of viewpoints
c. Serves the public interest
d. Provides content that serves local needs
Which of these is NOT part of the description of political news’ “primary definers”?
a. Set the agenda for what topics are worthy of attention
b. Determine how those topics should be covered
c. Vet the content of topics discussed
d. Political and corporate leaders
e. Define the parameters of a topic
According to Tryon, Political TV dramas that “engage with the moral and ethical questions that
emerge for individuals or groups who are tasked with protecting the nation’s citizens from
attack, in most cases by external threats” are melodramas of?
a. National security
b. Defence security
c. Safety security
d. Ethical security
