True or false

Question 1

Media industries treat audiences as consumers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Media owners see their readers, etc. as consumers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

News is led by celebrity news in the 21st century.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The journalist Ed Murrow criticised the media for offering too much information rather than entertainment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Murrow’s criticisms are still significant

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The shift (in sentence 1) has happened over the last few years.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Media owners’ views of their audience have remained the same.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Murrow’s criticism of journalists has greatly influenced the commercialisation of news.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

The public wants not only information but entertainment, so investigative journalism is becoming less important.

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 9