Among the Strategies That Campaigns Use to Control the Media

question 36

Multiple Choice

Among the strategies that campaigns use to control the media are

• A)making the candidate more available to the press.
• B)staging media events.
• C)ignoring negative campaign events.
• D)appearing on the major networks' nightly news shows.
• E)holding unrehearsed, spontaneous press conferences.

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Definitions:

Sons of Liberty

A group of colonial American patriots who organized against the British government prior to the American Revolution, protesting against taxation without representation.

Tea Act

A 1773 act of the British Parliament that granted the East India Company the right to sell tea to the American colonies free of taxes imposed on colonial tea importers, leading to the Boston Tea Party.

East India Company

A British trading company formed in the early 17th century, granted a monopoly on British trade with India and East Asia, playing a key role in the colonization and imperial control over regions.

Intolerable Acts

Four parliamentary measures in reaction to the Boston Tea Party that forced payment for the tea, disallowed colonial trials of British soldiers, forced their quartering in private homes, and reduced the number of elected officials in Massachusetts.