SMPA 1050 Exam #1- Aday 2025/2026
Exam Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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Hostile Media Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The more we care about a certain
topic, the more likely we are to think that the press is biased against our
side and for the other side
Why is "lie" a loaded term? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea of a lie is that you
not only told people something false, you did it with the intent to mislead
them. Calling people liars is saying that they meant to mislead those they
told the lie to- they might have just been misinformed or uneducated on the
subject.
Objectivity in the media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Not taking a side- instead,
presenting both sides as fairly as possible without bias. An impossible goal,
but one that the media strives to achieve. Detached balance for credibility
"View From Nowhere" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A journalistic sense of zero
perspective. Removes you from responsibility for stating the facts.
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,Hutchens Commission (1947) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔AKA the Commission on
the Freedom of the Press. There isn't just a right to inform, but people also
have the right to BE informed.
Recent Trends in News Values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Celebrities as news and
in news (DiCaprio, Wolf Blitzer)
- Substitution of talk and opinion for news (cable news isn't all news)
- News is entertainment, entertainment is news (in a way it wasn't before)
- Hard news replaced by soft news (feel-good pieces instead of real stories)
- More about attracting people and profit than a public service
Party Press - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔News sponsored by politicians and parties.
Only elites in politics and economy read them. Founding of USA-1830s.
"Preaching to the choir"- meant for those who could vote and the wealthy.
Top-down: politicians to people
Penny Press - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1830- late 1800s. Cheaper and meant for
the common person now that more people can vote. Looked for large
circulation. Made $ thru ads. Reporters politically independent. Democratic
Market Society reason why this exploded- country booms, so does the
media. Bottom-up: people to politicians. Facts > opinion.
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, Muckrakers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔late 19th- early 20th century. Extension of
Penny, first instances of investigative journalism. Beginning of objective
model ("he said, she said").
Kerner Commission - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Part of the reason social issues blew
up when they did (like the '68 riots) was because the media, in its bias,
missed underlying tensions.
Media Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Media rooms were mostly white males in
areas with heavy black populations- didn't reflect the city. This reflected
societal problems- uphill battle for minorities in media too. Still true(ish) to
this day. Not just what's included, but what's NOT included.
Political Communication Triangle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Public-Press-Politicians
Gans's 3 variables of journalism efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Staff (more
staff = more news to produce)
- Air time/print space (limited by ads, media, etc.)
- Production time (cuts into how much you can cover)
Based in objectivity, but subjectivity is required to make it work
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Exam Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
Hostile Media Effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The more we care about a certain
topic, the more likely we are to think that the press is biased against our
side and for the other side
Why is "lie" a loaded term? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea of a lie is that you
not only told people something false, you did it with the intent to mislead
them. Calling people liars is saying that they meant to mislead those they
told the lie to- they might have just been misinformed or uneducated on the
subject.
Objectivity in the media - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Not taking a side- instead,
presenting both sides as fairly as possible without bias. An impossible goal,
but one that the media strives to achieve. Detached balance for credibility
"View From Nowhere" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A journalistic sense of zero
perspective. Removes you from responsibility for stating the facts.
1
COPYRIGHT@SARAHROSAPERAL 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Hutchens Commission (1947) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔AKA the Commission on
the Freedom of the Press. There isn't just a right to inform, but people also
have the right to BE informed.
Recent Trends in News Values - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Celebrities as news and
in news (DiCaprio, Wolf Blitzer)
- Substitution of talk and opinion for news (cable news isn't all news)
- News is entertainment, entertainment is news (in a way it wasn't before)
- Hard news replaced by soft news (feel-good pieces instead of real stories)
- More about attracting people and profit than a public service
Party Press - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔News sponsored by politicians and parties.
Only elites in politics and economy read them. Founding of USA-1830s.
"Preaching to the choir"- meant for those who could vote and the wealthy.
Top-down: politicians to people
Penny Press - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1830- late 1800s. Cheaper and meant for
the common person now that more people can vote. Looked for large
circulation. Made $ thru ads. Reporters politically independent. Democratic
Market Society reason why this exploded- country booms, so does the
media. Bottom-up: people to politicians. Facts > opinion.
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COPYRIGHT@SARAHROSAPERAL 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Muckrakers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔late 19th- early 20th century. Extension of
Penny, first instances of investigative journalism. Beginning of objective
model ("he said, she said").
Kerner Commission - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Part of the reason social issues blew
up when they did (like the '68 riots) was because the media, in its bias,
missed underlying tensions.
Media Bias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Media rooms were mostly white males in
areas with heavy black populations- didn't reflect the city. This reflected
societal problems- uphill battle for minorities in media too. Still true(ish) to
this day. Not just what's included, but what's NOT included.
Political Communication Triangle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Public-Press-Politicians
Gans's 3 variables of journalism efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Staff (more
staff = more news to produce)
- Air time/print space (limited by ads, media, etc.)
- Production time (cuts into how much you can cover)
Based in objectivity, but subjectivity is required to make it work
3
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