FSOT COMM EXAM QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
The ability of news media to select some aspects of a story in order to promote a
particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or
treatment recommendation is called 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 required all media broadcasters to provide a
multiplicity of views regarding controversial or controversial subjects to prevent
control of such formats by any one view; that policy is no longer supported as
of a 1987 U.S. congress repeal of such regulation. 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
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
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, better known as
the Smith-Mundt Act, prevents the U.S. government to do the following:
a. To grant domestic broadcast spectrum to international broadcasting entities
sponsored by foreign governments
b. To implement numerous kinds of cultural or educational exchange programs
with any government not a party to 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
, Due to which of the following acts of Congress are U.S. citizens unlikely to be
able to listen to or read U.S. public diplomacy outreach materials?
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
In hte 1960s and '70s, writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joan Didion
often wrote from the point of view of their sources, one of the techniques that
defined a form of reporting known as:
a. civic journalism
b. investigative reporting
c. muckraking
d. new journalism - ANSWER d. new journalism
Which of the following terms is commonly used to reflect the contribution that
hte attractiveness of a nation's culture and values can make to its international
standing?
a. national branding
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
The ability of news media to select some aspects of a story in order to promote a
particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or
treatment recommendation is called 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 required all media broadcasters to provide a
multiplicity of views regarding controversial or controversial subjects to prevent
control of such formats by any one view; that policy is no longer supported as
of a 1987 U.S. congress repeal of such regulation. 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
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
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, better known as
the Smith-Mundt Act, prevents the U.S. government to do the following:
a. To grant domestic broadcast spectrum to international broadcasting entities
sponsored by foreign governments
b. To implement numerous kinds of cultural or educational exchange programs
with any government not a party to 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
, Due to which of the following acts of Congress are U.S. citizens unlikely to be
able to listen to or read U.S. public diplomacy outreach materials?
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
In hte 1960s and '70s, writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joan Didion
often wrote from the point of view of their sources, one of the techniques that
defined a form of reporting known as:
a. civic journalism
b. investigative reporting
c. muckraking
d. new journalism - ANSWER d. new journalism
Which of the following terms is commonly used to reflect the contribution that
hte attractiveness of a nation's culture and values can make to its international
standing?
a. national branding
