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Question 1:

Public policy in mass communication is established by ________.
a) media organizations
b) governments at all levels
c) professional associations
d) the World Trade Organization

Question 2:

The Fowler report acknowledged that Canadian broadcasting had to be ________.
a) comprehensive
b) positive
c) representative
d) accessible

Question 3:

________ was a vocal advocate of copyright protections.
a) Charles Dickens
b) Mark Twain
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Daniel Defoe

Question 4:

The official title of the Aird Commission of 1928–1929 was ________.
a) The Royal Commission on Wireless Telegraphy
b) The Royal Commission on Newspapers
c) The Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting
d) The Royal Commission on Motion Pictures

Question 5:

Massey–Lévesque introduced ________ to the cultural debate, a topic that has become central to policy discussions in our time.
a) learning
b) financing
c) artistry
d) accessibility

Question 6:

The Aird Commission recommended that ________.
a) Canada establish a national public radio network
b) Canada establish quotas on foreign films in movie theatres
c) Canada adopt the constitutional principle of freedom of the press
d) none of the above

Question 7:

Canada’s first national public broadcasting company was called ________.
a) the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
b) the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Corporation
c) the Canadian Broadcasting Commission
d) the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission

Question 8:

The Massey-Lévesque Commission was officially called the ________.
a) Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences
b) Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts and Culture
c) Royal Commission on National Development in High Culture and the Sciences
d) Canada Council for the Arts

Question 9:

The Fowler Commission of 1956–1957 studied ________.
a) cinema in Canada
b) broadcasting in Canada
c) corporate concentration in the newspaper industry
d) privatization of the telephone industry

Question 10:

Canada’s post-war nationalism of the 1950s and early 1960s was replaced in the 1970s and 1980s by ________.
a) the Quebec sovereignty movement
b) Western alienation
c) growing regionalism
d) economic conservatism

Question 11:

Public consultations on policy issues least often attract ________.
a) industry stakeholders
b) members of the public
c) organized pressure groups
d) labour leaders

Question 12:

The following theme was raised by the Aird Commission, which persist even today in communication policy development in Canada: ________.
a) How to increase a sense of national unity
b) The relationship between communications media and commerce
c) The cultural menace of the United States
d) Both b and c

Question 13:

The Fowler Commission supported state regulation of broadcasting in Canada for each of the following reasons except ________.
a) the technological imperative
b) broadcasting was seen as too powerful a medium to take the laissez-faire approach
c) the positive recognition of regionalism and multi-ethnicity
d) to restrain commercial forces from the excesses to which they may go

Question 14:

The following was conspicuously absent from the Applebaum-Hebert report but was characteristic of the Aird, Massey-Levesque and Fowler reports: ________.
a) Anti-commmercial and anti-American rhetoric
b) Support for an active state role in the cultural sphere
c) A national identity or national unity discourse
d) Both a and c

Question 15:

Digital Canada 150 does not address the following priority: ________.
a) Providing protection against cyber-bullying and spyware
b) Providing greater access to government materials and data online
c) Creating a national public broadcasting system
d) Connecting 98 percent of Canadians with high-speed access

Question 16:

Mass communication is a predominantly unstructured activity.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Fowler hinted at a new force in the communications policy debate: economics.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was Canada’s first radio broadcaster.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Applebaum–Hébert maintained state governance as a central tenet.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Massey–Lévesque rejected the federal government’s initial cultural interventions.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

The cultural policy documents discussed in this chapter perceive the United States as a positive influence on Canadian mass communication.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

The term “deregulation” is misleading because it implies that the free market is not a form of regulation.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Provincial governments develop policy that is particular to their needs, with Quebec being the most obvious example.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Canada supports universal free speech, even including speech that might promote violence or hatred toward identifiable groups.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

According to the Aird Commission, the medium of radio was perceived as an instrument of national purpose.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

The Massey-Lévesque report considered cultural expression as the search for essence, or for a ‘Canadian spirit’.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

The Applebaum-Hebert report accepted and furthered the protectionist stance against American cultural products coming into Canada.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Gasher: Chapter 07