Public Sphere and Media Influence

When attention focuses on a person or event this is called?

• Public Spotlight
• Public Opinion
• Public Policy
• Media

The view that a significant part of the public has about an issue is called

• public spotlight
• public opinion
• public policy
• public agenda

A stand the government takes on an issue is called. . . .

• Public spotlight
• Public opinion
• Public agenda
• Public Policy

How is public opinion measured? 

• sample
• polls
• public opinion
• Public policy

Choose the one that is not a form of media:

• Television
• Internet
• Newspapers or magazines
• Your church

_____________ is all the types of communication that can reach a large number of people.

• Newspapers
• News Channels
• Mass Media
• The Internet

A person who conducts a poll is called a _________.

• public opinion taker
• Public liasion
• person
• pollster

This group tries to shape public opinion and is made up of a group of people that share the same opinions. 

• Click
• Interest Group
• politicians
• Representatives

Can Mass media affect who runs for office? 

• Yes
• No

A lobbyist is a  person who: 

• waits around in a doctor's office.
• I do not know
• does not work for a partisan group.
• is hired by an interest group to go to Washington D.C. to contact lawmakers to and other officials to support their ideas.