Increasing Public Attention to Specific Problems Is a Core Feature

question 48

Multiple Choice

Increasing public attention to specific problems is a core feature of the media's ______ power.

• A)watchdog
• B)investigative
• C)agenda-setting
• D)gate-keeping
• E)scorekeeping

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Definitions:

Prices Paid

The actual amount of money expended by buyers to acquire goods or services.

Price Support Programs

Government interventions to maintain the market price of a commodity or product above its equilibrium level to benefit the producers.

Agricultural Products

Agricultural products are commodities produced through farming and agriculture, such as crops, livestock, and other raw goods.

Shortages

A market situation in which the demand for a product exceeds its supply at a particular price.