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2. What purpose does concentration of media ownership and control serve according to advocates of the Manipulative Model?

  • It allows media made in non-Western countries to flourish in the Western World
  • It is a way of benefiting smaller companies with no other way of accessing global resources
  • The creation of a media more tightly controlled by the capitalist ruling-class
  • It acts as a way of granting impartial media coverage

3. Which of these is NOT an example of "new media"?

  • television
  • social networking
  • blogging
  • YouTube

4. What are news values according to Hetherington (1980)?

  • Traits that make a story newsworthy
  • A case of life imitating media
  • A way of controlling the masses through the media
  • A method to undermine the less powerful social groups

5. What is a moral panic?

  • An exagerrated media reaction to social groups perceived as a threat
  • A way of creating false needs
  • An instance of impartial news coverage
  • A news value
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