| | Questions | Key vocabulary | Necessary
information |
1. | What has the growth of the mass media resulted in? | | |
2. | What is understood by a second-hand version of reality? Who is involved in conveying it? | | |
3. | Why is media considered to encourage political apathy? | | |
4. | What is the consequence of political ignorance? | | |
5. | How is political ignorance explained by people
of different ideological stances? | | |
6. | How has control over mass media changed over time? | | |
7. | Why is a free trade of ideas impossible in a “free” society? | | |
8. | How do governments justify their control of the press? | | |
9. | Who owns the press in Britain? | | |
10. | Whose interests do newspapers represent? | | |
11. | At what is the internet better than newspapers? | | |
12. | What costs are news organizations bearing currently and why? | | |
13. | In what way will the future of the news be different from the past? | | |
