Muckraking journalists exposed corruption and abuses in the oil, meatpacking, and patent medicine industries.

The popularity of the jukebox caused record sales to drop sharply in the 1930s.

British rock-and-roll groups such as the Beatles drew much of their inspiration from black artists.

Thomas Edison’s first attempt to create talking pictures in the late 1800s was an immediate commercial success.

The first newspaper produced in North America was Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick.

In the 1800s, America’s largest railroads used press agents to ______.

Sound bites are most closely identified with which of the following types of news?

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

The idea of the e-book was born when Michael Hart typed up the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence on his computer in 1971.

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