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SECTION 6
Questions 13 to 16 refer to the following excerpt from
the situation in television. There, if a man does not like
a speech delivered by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew in
what the networks offer him, all he can do is turn them
November of 1969. Select one answer unless otherwise
o and listen to a phonograph.
indicated.
et or s he stated hich are e in nu ber
45 have a virtual monopoly of a whole medium of 45
As with other American institutions, perhaps it is
co
unication. he ne spapers o ass circulation
time that the networks were made more responsive
ha e no onopol o the ediu o print. irtual
to the views of the nation and more responsible to
onopol o a hole ediu o co
unication is
the people they serve. I am not asking for government
not something a democratic people should blithely
5 censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking 5
50 ignore. And we are not going to cut off our television 50
whether a form of censorship already exists when the
sets and listen to the phonograph because the air
news that forty-million Americans receive each night
waves do not belong to the networks; they belong
is determined by a handful of men responsible to their
to the people. As Justice Byron White wrote in his
corporate e plo ers and filtered through a hand ul o
land ar opinion si onths ago t is the right
10 commentators who admit to their own set of
biases. 10 55 of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the 55
broadcasters hich is para ount.
The questions I am raising tonight should have been
raised by others long ago. They should have been raised
13.
The passage gives all of the following EXCEPT
by those Americans who have traditionally considered
which to differentiate between network news and
the preservation of freedom of speech and freedom
newspapers? Select all that apply.
15 of the press their special provinces of responsibility 15
and concern. They should have been raised by those
A The number of viewers
Americans who share the view of the late Justice
B The cost difference between a television and
Learned and that right conclusions are ore li el to
a newspaper
be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through
C People enjoy television more than phonographs
20 an ind o authoritati e selection.
20
D The experience of seeing and hearing is not
like that of reading
d ocates or the net or s ha e clai ed a first
E The number of television stations versus the
amendment right to the same unlimited freedoms
number of available printed news publications
held by the great newspapers of America. The situations
are not identical. Where
The New York Times
reaches
25 800,000 people, NBC reaches twenty times that number 25
with its evening news. Nor can the tremendous impact
14.
Which of the following, if true, would have most
o seeing tele ision fil and hearing co
entar be
weakened Agnew’s argument?
compared with reading the printed page.
A Most television reporters had also worked in
A decade ago, before the network news acquired such
print journalism
30 dominance over public opinion, Walter Lippmann 30
B Newspaper editors had biases
spo e to the issue here is an essential and radical
C Television networks bitterly competed against
di erence he stated bet een tele ision and
one another
printing.... The three or four competing television
D In 1969, most Americans did not own or watch
stations control virtually all that can be received over
television
35 the air by ordinary television sets. But, besides the 35
E
undreds o
ericans had alread filed
mass-circulation dailies, there are the weeklies, the
monopoly complaints with the Federal
monthlies, the out-of-town newspapers, and books.
Communications Commission (FCC)
If a man does not like his newspaper, he can read
another from out of town, or wait for a weekly news
40
aga ine. t is not ideal. ut it is infinitel better than 40
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