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1. What is it called when the news media influence the criteria voters use to evaluate candidates?

1. Framing

2. Priming

3. Bias

4. Agenda-setting

2. What is it called when the news media emphasize certain aspects of a story, or present it in a particular way?

1. Framing

2. Agenda-setting

3. Pneumatic tubing

4. Priming

3. Among the American public, reliance on newspapers for political news has _________ in recent years.

1. Gone way down, but then rebounded

2. Remained steady

3. Decreased

4. Increased

4. When critics claim the news media are biased in a liberal direction, they most often point to:

1. All of these factors

2. Corporate ownership of the news media

3. Professional norms that push reporters to prefer liberal stories

4. The personal political preferences and partisanship of journalists

5. When the media focus on who is up and who is down in the polls, we call this _________ coverage.

1. Old-school

2. Hard hitting journalistic

3. Horserace

4. Silly season