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Mass Media Chapter 15 quiz

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Authoritarianism   Top-down governance such as a monarchy or dictatorship  
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Henry VIII   English king whose censorship epitomized early authoritarianism  
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Pre-Publication Censorship   Authorities preview material before dissemination  
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King James I   Articulated the divine-right-of-kings theory  
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Diving Right of Kings   Proper decisions follow the monarch's will, which is linked to the Almighty  
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John Milton   Early libertarian thinker  
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Marketplace of Ideas   An unbridled forum for free inquiry and free expression  
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Enlightenment   A movement emphasizing reason and individualism.  
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Self-Righting Process   Although people make occasional errors in truth-seeking, they eventually discover and correct them  
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Thomas Paine   Revolutionary War pamphleteer who defined libertarianism for common readers  
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Thomas Jefferson   Among libertarian drafters of Declaration of Independence  
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Natural Rights   Inherent human rights, including self-determination  
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First Amendment   The free-expression section of the U.S. Constitution  
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Microblogging   Online exchange forum, typically of sentence fragments  
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Edwin Stanton   U.S. secretary of state who organized Civil War censorship of sensitive military news  
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Rice-Roots Reporting   Uncensored field reporting from the Vietnam war  
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Pool System   Reporters chosen on a rotating basis to cover an event to which access is limited  
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Victoria Clarke   Designed policy to embed war reporters in combat units  
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Nation-State   A sovereign state whose people share a political system and usually language or ethnicity  
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WikiLeaks   Unaffiliated online source that posts secret government and corporate documents. Designed to correct abusive practices and promote public dialogue and involvement  
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Julian Assange   Founder of WikiLeaks  
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Principled Leaking   Concept that government and corporate employees serve a better good in whistle-blowing on corrupt, deceitful and secret practices  
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)   Government agency that administers non-military foreign aid  
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Nation Building   Encouraging governance and infrastructure systems in developing countries  
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Soft Diplomacy   Government's low-key initiatives to create a favorable context for foreign relations. Includes direct-to-the-people media messages  
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Radio Farda   U.S. government Farsi language service aimed at Iran and Iraq  
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Radio and Television Marti   U.S. propaganda station aimed at Cuba  
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Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty   U.S. propaganda stations aimed at countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East without a free flow of information  
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Voice of America   U.S. government-funded producer of broadcast and internet programming sent into nations with state-controlled media to articulate U.S. policies directly to the people  
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Golden Shield Firewall   Chinese system to control internal internet communication within the country  
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Hammad bin Khalifa   Founder of Al-Jazeera television news network  
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Al-Jazeera   Qatar-based satellite news channel for Arab audiences; now global  
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Propaganda   Widespread promotion of particular ideas, doctrines usually loose with truth or designed to promote a distinctly partisan or sectarian view  
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Dubai Media Incorporated   Quasi-government agency building Dubai into a Mideast entertainment production center  
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Liu Di   Under the pseudonym Stainless Steel Mouse, she satirized the Chinese government until arrested and silenced  
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Emergency Response Law   Chinese limites on news reporting of disasters, ostensibly to ensure social stability  
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Embeds   News reporters who are with military units on missions  
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Prior Censorship   Government review of content before dissemination  
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Firewall   A block on unauthorized access to a computer system while permitting out-ward communication  
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Next Carrying Network (CN2)   Fast Chinese internet protocols built on new technical standards; incompatible with other protocols  
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