SMPA 1050- Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
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Objectivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-treating facts without influence from personal
feelings or prejudices
-western media is built on this
-eastern people expect media to be subjective
liberal prism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-thinking in the way of a collective view
-similar to group think
-happens even tho journalists try to avoid it
media literate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-developing an understanding of your own
media habits and critically evaluating and analyzing media sources and
messages
secular media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-tends to be liberal media that isn't
religiously motivated
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,natural bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔occurs naturally because newsrooms are
filled with democrats
detachment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-modern objectivity
-take yourself and biases out of the story as to not influence the reader
-"he said, she said"
Hostile Media Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-idea that partisans see media as
less sympathetic to their side, more sympathetic to the opposing side, and
generally hostile to their point of view
-important to look at media through a filter to avoid this
credibility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-quality of a source
ex: fox news=/= untrustworthy
mainstream media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Those media channels that reach the
broadest audiences
-commit to objectivity as the norm
-motivated by business efforts
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, editorials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an
editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
social desirability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔tailoring your answer to what you think
the other person wants; this effects polling
accountability journalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔work that encompasses fact-
checking, explanatory and investigative reporting, but more generally
applies to the journalistic work of holding the powerful accountable
lie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-could be mistaken as intention, stupidity, or ignorance
-literally means the person involved knows that what they said is false
ex: Bush and using the word torture
He Said-She Said Journalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-creates artificial balance
that sometimes obscures the truth
-journalist gathers as much info as possible to present both sides of the
story while remaining neutral
Hutchins Commission - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-formed to inquire after the proper
function of media in a modern democracy
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Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated
Objectivity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-treating facts without influence from personal
feelings or prejudices
-western media is built on this
-eastern people expect media to be subjective
liberal prism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-thinking in the way of a collective view
-similar to group think
-happens even tho journalists try to avoid it
media literate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-developing an understanding of your own
media habits and critically evaluating and analyzing media sources and
messages
secular media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-tends to be liberal media that isn't
religiously motivated
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,natural bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔occurs naturally because newsrooms are
filled with democrats
detachment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-modern objectivity
-take yourself and biases out of the story as to not influence the reader
-"he said, she said"
Hostile Media Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-idea that partisans see media as
less sympathetic to their side, more sympathetic to the opposing side, and
generally hostile to their point of view
-important to look at media through a filter to avoid this
credibility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-quality of a source
ex: fox news=/= untrustworthy
mainstream media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Those media channels that reach the
broadest audiences
-commit to objectivity as the norm
-motivated by business efforts
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, editorials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an
editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
social desirability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔tailoring your answer to what you think
the other person wants; this effects polling
accountability journalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔work that encompasses fact-
checking, explanatory and investigative reporting, but more generally
applies to the journalistic work of holding the powerful accountable
lie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-could be mistaken as intention, stupidity, or ignorance
-literally means the person involved knows that what they said is false
ex: Bush and using the word torture
He Said-She Said Journalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-creates artificial balance
that sometimes obscures the truth
-journalist gathers as much info as possible to present both sides of the
story while remaining neutral
Hutchins Commission - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-formed to inquire after the proper
function of media in a modern democracy
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