Media Ethics and Law Question Bank
Course Introduction
Media Ethics and Law explores the fundamental principles, frameworks, and regulations governing ethical conduct and legal responsibilities in media industries. The course examines issues such as freedom of the press, privacy, intellectual property, censorship, defamation, and the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and media professionals. Students analyze case studies, landmark legislation, and ethical codes of practice to understand the balance between the publics right to know and the protection of individual rights. Through critical discussions and practical applications, the course equips students with the knowledge and skills to navigate the complex legal and ethical landscape of contemporary media.
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Media and Culture Mass Communication in a Digital Age 10th Edition by Richard Campbell
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Chapter 2: The Internet, Digital Media, and Media Convergence
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Q1) Google+ is a social networking site that is designed to compete with Facebook.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ARPAnet is a browser.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to the American Library Association, what are the limitations of trying to protect children from inappropriate material on the Internet?
A)It's annoying to have to disable the filters every time an adult wants to access that material.
B)There is no way to filter out all illegal content but still allow access to constitutionally protected materials.
C)Current filtering software doesn't block enough material.
D)There isn't enough federal funding for all schools and libraries to have the filtering software.
E)There are no limitations.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Digital Gaming and the Media Playground
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Q1) The Atari 2600, released in 1977, used a(n) ______ processer.
A)8-bit
B)32-bit
C)64-bit
D)128-bit
E)256-bit
Answer: A
Q2) Like television shows, books, and comics before them, electronic games have also inspired movies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The successful launch of a game involves ______.
A)online promotions
B)banner ads
C)in-store displays
D)television ads
E)All of the options are correct.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music
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Q1) The Japanese developed audiotape after World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true about the MP3 music file format?
A)It creates music files that are very large and slow to download.
B)It was very important in the fight against the pirating of recorded music.
C)It makes recording, transferring, and downloading music quicker and easier.
D)It hasn't been popular with consumers because MP3 players break easily.
E)None of the above options is correct.
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of the Web sites that are increasingly popular places for fans to sample and discover new music?
A)Google
B)Pandora
C)Facebook
D)YouTube
E)Rhapsody
Q4) Describe one way in which the convergence of the recording industry and the Internet has changed the industry.Explain how these changes may be positive, negative, or both.
Q5) Unauthorized online file sharing is known as __________________.
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Chapter 5: Popular Radio and the Origins of Broadcasting
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Q1) Define format radio, and give examples.
Q2) Former head of NBC
A)Lee De Forest
B)David Sarnoff
C)Guglielmo Marconi
D)Reginald Fessenden
E)Edwin H.Armstrong
Q3) Explain how radio survived the coming of television.
Q4) The Titanic sank in 1912, resulting in the loss of about fifteen hundred lives; had it not been for radio, seven hundred additional lives would have been lost.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The rise of pirate micropower radio stations in the United States in the 1990s led the federal government to approve a new class of noncommercial low-power FM radio stations in 2000.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Since the 1950s, in what ways could the radio industry be said to have experienced convergence with other media?
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Chapter 6: Television and Cable- the Power of Visual Culture
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Q1) Cable systems in the United States are increasingly owned by fewer and fewer companies, called multiple-system operators.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why might a city decide to start its own municipal cable service?
Q3) Which of the following is not true about the aftermath of the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
A)Competition from allowing regional and long-distance phone companies as well as cable companies into each other's markets has kept cable rates low.
B)Consolidation of regional phone, long-distance, cable, and Internet service companies has decreased competition and left consumers with high cable bills.
C)The cable industry has spent almost $150 billion installing and upgrading its technological infrastructure in the United States.
D)Cable companies now bundle digital cable television, Internet, and phone services.
E)All of the options are true.
Q4) CATV stands for ______________________ antenna television.
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Chapter 7: Movies and the Impact of Images
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Q1) Live band
A)1910s
B)1920s
C)1950s
D)1990s
E)2000s
Q2) Describe the introduction of sound in movies in Hollywood.
Q3) In 1903, Edwin S.Porter introduced the ______________________ genre with The Great Train Robbery.
Q4) Although Hollywood movies may show actual consumer products, such as Pepsi-Cola or BMW automobiles, for the effect of realism, the studios may not receive any money or other compensation for showing those products.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The ______________________ was an early movie camera developed by Thomas Edison's assistant in the 1890s.
Q6) Cinema ______________________ is the French term for "truth film."
Q7) Using as much detail as possible, describe six main revenue sources used by the movie industry today.
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Chapter 8: Newspapers- the Rise and Decline of Modern Journalism
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Q1) Yellow journalism publisher
A)Nellie Bly
B)Adolph Ochs
C)William Randolph Hearst
Q2) According to the textbook, some print journalism observers think one piece of good news for the industry is ______.
A)small papers that focus on local news and ads retain a loyal reader base
B)large corporate chains have numerous divisions to spread costs across
C)college graduates entering the print journalism field are looking for job openings
D)newspaper sales are increasing in North America and Europe
E)None of the above options is correct.
Q3) Yellow journalism in the 1890s was the origin of objective journalism in the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As a grassroots movement, _______________________ refers to people who use the Internet and blogs to disseminate news and information.
Q5) _______________________ bought the New York Times in 1896.
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Chapter 9: Magazines in the Age of Specialization
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Q1) Like advertising and public relations, magazines have played an important role in
A)exposing government corruption
B)transforming the United States from a producer society to a consumer society
C)forcing change in powerful institutions
D)giving a voice to ordinary American citizens
E)None of the above options is correct.
Q2) Godey's Lady's Book
A)Championed women's property rights
B)Published the work of writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Twain
C)Longest-running magazine in U.S.history
D)Pioneered the national political magazine format
Q3) Specialized magazines were published in America throughout the nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By the end of the nineteenth century, some magazine cover prices actually went down-from thirty-five cents to ten cents.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Books and the Power of Print
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Q1) The first printed books were so inexpensive and modest that they were primarily sold to the middle and lower classes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______________________ editors attend to specific problems in writing or length in a book manuscript.
Q3) Mass market paperbacks account for more than one-third of the book market in terms of sales.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is the oldest printed book still in existence?
A)The Gutenberg Bible
B)The Bay Psalm Book
C)Wang Chieh's Diamond Sutra
D)Plato's Republic
E)Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Q5) Because books are such an old and traditional medium, they are no longer very influential.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Advertising and Commercial Culture
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Q1) Market research
A)Handles client liaison
B)Writes and designs the ads
C)Collects consumer data
D)Measures effectiveness of ad placements
Q2) The ______ is the blueprint or roughly drawn comic strip of a potential ad.
A)focus group
B)storyboard
C)VALS strategy
D)PSA
E)space broker
Q3) Hidden or disguised print or visual messages are called ______.
A)subliminal advertising
B)slogans
C)public service announcements
D)saturation advertising
E)spam
Q4) An advertising strategy that associates a product with simplicity is called the ____________________ pitch.
Q5) ____________________ has become the dominant form of Web advertising.
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Chapter 12: Public Relations and Framing the Message
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Q1) How did BP respond to the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010?
A)The chairman referred to the "small people" of the Gulf region.
B)They underestimated the amount of oil leaking.
C)They vowed to pay the cost of cleanup.
D)They created a TV commercial campaign to communicate their cleanup efforts.
E)All of the options are correct.
Q2) What might be a public relations benefit of creating a Facebook page for a business?
Q3) P.T.Barnum used gross exaggeration, fraudulent stories, and staged events to secure newspaper coverage for his clients, his American Museum, and his circus.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ivy Ledbetter Lee and Edward Bernays believed that public opinion was rational and difficult to influence.
A)True B)False
Q5) Astroturf lobbying refers to phony grassroots campaigns engineered by PR firms. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Media Economics and the Global Marketplace
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Q1) How have media mergers changed the economics of mass media?
Q2) American culture dominates global markets partly because it is appealing and partly for economic reasons.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the textbook, what's wrong with referring to a position as "common sense"?
A)It creates a context in which there is less chance for challenge and criticism.
B)Social and political leaders use it as a tool to stifle changes to the status quo.
C)It is a social construct that shifts over time rather than representing any solid "truth."
D)It is a powerful tool of hegemony.
E)All of the options are correct.
Q4) The government trend toward deregulation was actually begun during the Carter years.
A)True B)False
Q5) Name one argument for and one argument against the spread of global media.
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Chapter 14: The Culture of Journalism- Values, Ethics, and Democracy
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Q1) One of the main reasons newspaper organizations wanted their reporters to write in a neutral, detached style is that ______.
A)it would take less ink than printing stories with lots of adjectives
B)it would help reporters determine what is newsworthy
C)it would alienate fewer potential subscribers and advertisers
D)the tradition of a partisan press had become too old-fashioned
E)it made for shorter stories that would mean spending less on ink and paper
Q2) Which of the following is not true about "fake" news programs such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report?
A)Their success might be attributed in part to the audience's cynicism about politics and politicians.
B)They not only satirize people in the news, but critique the news media as well.
C)They are simply about telling jokes and never try to express any larger truth.
D)The tradition can trace its roots back to the 1970s when Saturday Night Live started running "Weekend Update."
E)The viewers of "fake" shows find the slick, formulaic political ads and canned sound bites of local TV news stories less persuasive.
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Chapter 15: Media Effects and Cultural Approaches to Research
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Q1) One of the main problems in studying the effects of media is that whatever real effects the media cause, they also often serve as a scapegoat for larger social problems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An example of Carey's description of communication as culture might be seen in ______.
A)people gathering in meeting houses to talk about issues like free speech
B)the way a message goes simply from sender to receiver
C)the attempts to repair and transform society through adjusted narratives and symbols following the Civil Rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s
D)how culture disconnects from the communication of a period in time
E)All of the options are correct.
Q3) This kind of research method employs a control group for comparison.
A)Agenda-setting
B)Cultivation effect
C)Content analysis
D)Experiment
E)Survey
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Chapter 16: Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression
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Q1) This is a written or broadcast expression that defames someone's character.
A)Copyright
B)Fair use
C)Libel
D)Absolute privilege
E)Censorship
Q2) According to the 1934 Communications Act, broadcast stations must provide equal opportunities and response time for qualified political candidates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How has censorship been defined historically?
Q4) Print and broadcast media are not treated equally under the First Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the consequences of not having a federal shield law for journalists?
Q6) The Supreme Court has defined censorship as prior restraint of speech.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Are there other kinds of censorship besides censorship by the government? Explain.
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Chapter 17: General Questions Covering the Entire Text
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Q1) The Supremes
A)Saturday Evening Post
B)Pentagon Papers
C)Washington Post
D)McClure's
E)Collier's
F)"The Yellow Kid"
G)North Star
H)Martin Chuzzlewit
I)"Stop! In the Name of Love"
J)New-York Weekly Journal
K)File-sharing
L)New York World
Q2) Edward Bernays
A)Yellow journalism
B)Ludlow miners' strike
C)Torches of freedom
D)United Artists
E)Stunt or investigative journalism
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