A Series of Polls in 2003 Showed That People Who

question 34

Multiple Choice

A series of polls in 2003 showed that people who primarily got their news from the fox News Channel were significantly more likely to believe that Iraq had played a part in the 9/11 attacks.Many people saw this as evidence of the way the media shaped public opinion,but some believed that those who already believed this simply gravitated to fox.This is an example of:

• A) textual poaching.
• B) encoding/decoding.
• C) reinforcement theory.
• D) agenda-setting theory.

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U.S. Financial Markets

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Federal Government

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Inflationary Pressures

Economic conditions that tend to lead to inflation, which is an increase in prices and decrease in the purchasing value of money, often resulting from supply and demand imbalances.

Money Supply

The total amount of money available in an economy at a particular time, including cash, bank deposits, and liquid assets.