CE 5c - Role of Media in Campaigns

CE. 5c The media play a very important role in the political process of elections. They help -

• Nominate candidates to run for political office.
• Highlight campaign issues and community concerns.
• Limit opportunities for citizens to run for political office.
• By broadcasting jokes or publishing cartoons about the current president.

CE. 5c While the media sometimes uses misleading information called propaganda, more often it uses bias, which means –

• Broadcasting different points of view
• Separating fact from opinion
• Favoring one side over the other
• Rising campaign costs

CE. 5c Mail propaganda, television ads, and phone calls during elections are Political Parties way of:

• Recruiting candidates
• Monitoring actions of office holders
• Educating the Electorate
• Voting

CE 5c Which is not a way that voters evaluate campaign information for accuracy?

• maintain a position of apathy
• separate facts from opinion
• detect bias
• evaluate sources & identify propaganda

CE. 5c Identify candidates, emphasize the issues, write editorials, political cartoons, op-ed pieces, broadcast different points of view... these are all....

• functions of political parties
• stated in a party's platform
• mass media roles in elections
• similarities in political parties

It is important to keep voters informed and to help them make responsible choices.
That is the job of the media CE.5c

• False
• True

While the media sometimes uses misleading information called propaganda, more often it uses bias, which means –

• Broadcasting different points of view
• Separating fact from opinion
• Favoring one side over the other
• Rising campaign costs

Which is not a way that voters evaluate campaign information for accuracy?

• maintain a position of apathy
• separate facts from opinion
• detect bias
• evaluate sources & identify propaganda

Identify candidates, emphasize the issues, write editorials, political cartoons, op-ed pieces, broadcast different points of view... these are all....

• functions of political parties
• stated in a party's platform
• mass media roles in elections
• similarities in political parties

It is important to keep voters informed and to help them make responsible choices.
That is the job of the media CE.5c

• False
• True