Before the 1830s, there was little need for advertising in America because there were few goods available for sale and virtually no consumer market.

One of the benefits of online advertising is that it tends to protect the privacy of consumers who use the Internet.

Once strongly influenced by books, television and film now look elsewhere for most of their story ideas.

The telegraph and newspapers transformed news into a salable commodity.

Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere was about the need for global cooperation with public projects.

Which of the following statements about the Internet is not true?

A communication satellite that is in geosynchronous orbit circles the earth at the same speed at which the earth revolves on its axis.

Which of the following eras of journalism best represents the historical arrival of newspapers as a mass medium?

Lassie went off the air because children got tired of seeing the same plot every week.

With the coming of the printing press, the printed newspaper became the first mass-marketed product in history.