Which of these is a way that politicians in the united states attempt to influence the media?
a. they try to “spin” the news by manipulating how reporters interpret events.
b. they pass laws creating official agencies to censor media.
c. they prohibit reporters from covering certain issues.
d. they jail reporters who write negative stories about them.
e. they purchase media companies to control the campaign message.

According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects? a researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine. undergraduate students in a field methods class are assigned a research question and asked to interview another classmate, to be followed by a class discussion on interview techniques. a cognitive psychologist enrolls undergraduate students for a computer-based study about the effect of mood on problem-solving behaviors. a researcher sets up a meeting with the superintendent of a large and diverse public school system to get data about the ethnic composition of the school system and the number of students receiving free lunches.