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The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular problem
definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is known as
media:
a. Agenda Setting
b. Cultivation
c. Framing
d. Priming - Answer✔c. framing
Which fo the following daily newspapers is published in the United Kingdom?
a. The Independent
b. Time Out
c. The Daily Herald
d. The Observer - Answer✔a. The Independent
Which of the following policies, which mandated that media broadcasters present a diversity of
perspectives on contentious or controversial subjects in order to prevent domination by a single
viewpoint, was repealed by the U.S. congress in 1987?
a. The Communications Decency Act
b. The Equal Time Rule
c. The Media Bias Rule
d. The Fairness Doctrine - Answer✔d. The Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard, Hill and Knowlton, and Ketchum, Inc. are among the
largest U.S.-based:
a. newspaper chains
b. media conglomerates
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c. public relations agencies
d. media-research firms - Answer✔c. public relations agencies
Which of the following entities operates independently of the State Department and reports
directly to Congress?
a. Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau
b. Public Affairs Bureau
c. International Information Programs Bureau
d. The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Answer✔d. The Broadcasting Board of Governors
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, popularly known as the Smith-
Mundt Act, prohibits the U.S. government from:
a. allocating domestic broadcast spectrum to international broadcasting platforms sponsored by
foreign governments
b. participating in cultural or educational exchange programs with governments that are not
signatories of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
c. disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the U.S. borders
d. intentionally releasing false or misleading information to foreign audiences - Answer✔c.
disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the U.S. borders
U.S. citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or read U.S. public diplomacy outreach materials
because of which of the following acts of Congress?
a. Fulbright-Hayes
b. McCain-Feingold
c. Percy-Abzug
d. Smith-Mundt - Answer✔d. Smith-Mundt
Which of the following entities/programs is an official organ of U.S. government public
diplomacy efforts?
a. The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy
b. The National Endowment for Democracy
c. The International Visitors Program
d. Business for Diplomatic Action - Answer✔c. The International Visitors Program
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FSOT COMM Exam Questions With 100%
Correct Answers 2025
The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular problem
definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is known as
media:
a. Agenda Setting
b. Cultivation
c. Framing
d. Priming - Answer✔c. framing
Which fo the following daily newspapers is published in the United Kingdom?
a. The Independent
b. Time Out
c. The Daily Herald
d. The Observer - Answer✔a. The Independent
Which of the following policies, which mandated that media broadcasters present a diversity of
perspectives on contentious or controversial subjects in order to prevent domination by a single
viewpoint, was repealed by the U.S. congress in 1987?
a. The Communications Decency Act
b. The Equal Time Rule
c. The Media Bias Rule
d. The Fairness Doctrine - Answer✔d. The Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard, Hill and Knowlton, and Ketchum, Inc. are among the
largest U.S.-based:
a. newspaper chains
b. media conglomerates
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c. public relations agencies
d. media-research firms - Answer✔c. public relations agencies
Which of the following entities operates independently of the State Department and reports
directly to Congress?
a. Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau
b. Public Affairs Bureau
c. International Information Programs Bureau
d. The Broadcasting Board of Governors - Answer✔d. The Broadcasting Board of Governors
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, popularly known as the Smith-
Mundt Act, prohibits the U.S. government from:
a. allocating domestic broadcast spectrum to international broadcasting platforms sponsored by
foreign governments
b. participating in cultural or educational exchange programs with governments that are not
signatories of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
c. disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the U.S. borders
d. intentionally releasing false or misleading information to foreign audiences - Answer✔c.
disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the U.S. borders
U.S. citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or read U.S. public diplomacy outreach materials
because of which of the following acts of Congress?
a. Fulbright-Hayes
b. McCain-Feingold
c. Percy-Abzug
d. Smith-Mundt - Answer✔d. Smith-Mundt
Which of the following entities/programs is an official organ of U.S. government public
diplomacy efforts?
a. The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy
b. The National Endowment for Democracy
c. The International Visitors Program
d. Business for Diplomatic Action - Answer✔c. The International Visitors Program
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