Identify a True Statement About Media in the Twentieth Century

question 12

Multiple Choice

Identify a true statement about media in the twentieth century.

• A) Following World War II, podcasts became the dominant form of communication.
• B) Beginning about 1950, the number of adults reading a daily paper began to increase.
• C) The Internet, including e-mail and the World Wide Web, came into widespread use by the general public in the 1990s.
• D) From the founding of the United States through the early years of the twentieth century, all media were electronic media.
• E) Radio and motion pictures declined in importance in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Definitions:

Growth Rate

An indicator of growth in size, quantity, value, or intensity during a specific timeframe.

Crude Birth Rate

The total number of live births per 1,000 population in a given year.

Crude Death Rate

A statistical measure representing the total number of deaths per year per 1,000 individuals in a population.

Immigration

The movement of people from one country to another with the intention of settling permanently or temporarily in the new country.