Deck 9: State and Local News Coverage

Question 1

What is the main topic covered by local television news?

A) health care and education
B) local politics
C) crimes and accidents
D) national politics

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Local news coverage of elections is mostly about ______.

A) candidate traits and experience
B) candidate policy positions
C) who is winning or losing the "horse race"
D) what voter groups are likely to support which candidates and why
E) all of these

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Local newspapers are dying out across the country; this trend was especially pronounced between 2000 and 2014.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Local reporters typically have less education and experience than their national counterparts.

Question 5

Local reporters have less adversarial relationships with local public officials than national correspondents have with officials in national government.

Question 6

State politics tends to get more coverage and better coverage than local politics.

Question 7

When covering national news or crises, local news outlets often use a local angle.

Question 8

Subnational election coverage by local news outlets tends to be regularly provided and of high quality.

Question 9

Heavy local news emphasis on crime has the negative consequence of making audiences overestimate their likelihood of being a victim of crime.

Question 10

What are some of the implications from the changing media grid-the movement away from media market and political boundary overlap?

Question 11

What are the six media styles commonly found among subnational political figures?

Question 12

What are some of the reasons metropolitan journalists cover the inner city while neglecting the surrounding areas?

Question 13

Why does local news lend itself to tabloidization even more than other news?

Question 14

Why is crime news so prevalent?

Question 15

What are the various reasons state news receives the least amount of attention from journalists and news organizations? Discuss both the news media factors and government institutional factors at play. What are the implications?

Question 16

If all politics is local, how does local coverage of local candidates measure up? What are the implications for local governance and an informed citizenry?