Chapter 1 Exercises

Create a “media diary” of your daily contact with different communications media.

Conduct an informal poll of friends and family to determine the amount and type of media they use on a daily basis.

Check out who owns your most admired or most used website, newspaper, magazine or television channel and figure out their connections to other media organizations.

Develop a list of news sections of a television newscast or a daily newspaper for an audience of your peers. What would you include or eliminate from what is now being offered?

Debate whether the diversity of news sources provides a diversity of news and opinion.

Discuss if and how the federal government, i.e. the Federal CommunicationsCommission, should ensure diversity, localism and competition in news