J1100 Exam

Which of the following is a potential threat to journalistic independence?

Powerful Sources

Competitive Pressures

A push for profits

All of the above

Journalists owe their allegiance to which of the following ?

Political Parties

Their editors

Their religious convictions

The public

Which of the following statements best describes Craft and Davis' approach to objectivity?

The objectivity that describes a characteristic specific to print journalists only

All of these options

That objectivity describes a process or set of methods

That objectivity describes a personal trait that is achievable

What do Craft and Davis identify as the "core value" of journalism?

Efficiency

Timeliness

Independence

Objectivity

How to Craft and Davis define a structural bias?

A type of bias that is inherent to journalism practice, which favors certain kinds of news topics and presentations over others

A bias towards the status quo

None of these options

A bias towards one particular party

Studies show that which of the following is the least important determinant of news content:

News routines

A journalist's political motives

Commercial pressures

Organizational constraints

Which of the following points is made by Politico columnist Jack Shafer in his article about CNN and Donna Brazile?

That news organizations ought to hire more partisan commentators

That news organizations use partisan commentators to create an illusion of impartiality and balance

That partisan commentators bring perspectives that enrich and enhance the journalistic product

None of these options

The Newhouse roundtable discussing the 2016 election suggests which of the following was a journalistic failure in its coverage of the campaign?

An over-reliance on polls

Focusing too much on what leaders and elites were saying

Not looking outside of the “DC beltway” at what was going on in rural communities

All of these options

Media scholar Jay Rosen devised the phrase “the view from nowhere” to describe what journalistic problem?

Journalists’ anxiety about being seen as taking sides

None of these options

The absence of journalists from rural communities

The over-reliance on pollsters and pundits

�The public should be able to get information on all sides of an issue, and all of those sides should be given equal weight.” Is this statement true or false?

True

False

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