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Chapter 15 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz
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The purpose of advance stories for meetings and speeches is to
predict what will be decided or discussed at a speech or meeting.
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increase ticket sales for speakers who come to the community.
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alert readers and viewers to events they may want to attend.
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promote the activities of government agencies and community groups.
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Which of the following usually is NOT included in an advance story for a speech or meeting?
What will happen.
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Whether the event is worth attending.
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When and where it will happen.
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Who will be involved.
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Which of the follow is NOT one of the skills required for covering speeches and meetings?
The ability to make an event seem more interesting that it was.
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Advance preparation.
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Sound news judgment.
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An ear for interesting quotations.
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A reporter assigned to cover a meeting of a public agency usually will prepare by
reading the agenda for the meeting.
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looking up the phone numbers of the members.
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preparing a container of strong coffee.
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inviting friends and relatives to attend.
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Prominent speakers will sometimes make available to reporters before a speech
devices for recording the speech.
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instructions on how the reporters should write their stories.
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bibliographies of works they will be quoting in the speech.
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copies of the text of the speech.
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Reporters planning to cover a speech or meeting usually try to arrive
early so they can interview the people involved and skip the speech or meeting itself.
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just in time for the start of the speech or meeting so as to avoid wasting time.
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late so they can interview people leaving the speech or meeting after it is over.
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early so they can find seats the will allow them to see and hear everything.
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Often it is difficult to identify the central point for a story about a meeting because
many meetings deal with several unrelated topics.
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everyone knows readers and viewers do not care about politics.
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the topics discussed at most meetings are too technical and specialized for the general public to understand.
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whatever is done at a meeting will have little effect on the lives of most people.
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The major difficulty to determining the central point for a speech or meeting story is
the difficulty for reporters to understand what public agencies are doing or what speakers are saying.
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the lack of public interest in what agencies do or what prominent people say.
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meetings and speeches often deal with multiple important topics.
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the conflicting advice they receive from editors and news directors.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the solutions to the problem of organizing a speech or meeting story?
Select the one or two most important topics and summarize them in the lead and summarize the rest in the second and third paragraphs.
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Select the one most important topic and omit any discussion of other topics.
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Select the most important topic and summarize it in the lead and then list other important topics that were discussed.
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Select the most important topic and summarize it in the lead and then list minor topics near the end of the story.
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A common error beginning reporters make when they cover speeches or meetings is to
write leads that are so broad they contain no news.
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write leads that are filled with concrete, specific facts.
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include lots of quotations in their stories.
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include colorful details about speakers and participants in their stories.
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Follow stories about speeches usually emphasize one of three things:
the main point of the speech, the length of the speech or the reaction to the speech.
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the location of the speech, the identity of the speaker or the reaction to the speech.
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the main point of the speech, the identity of the speaker or the time the speech started.
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the main point of the speech, the identity of the speaker or the reaction to the speech.
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If a speakers uses an anecdote in her or his speech, it might make a good lead if
it is germane to the speaker's central point.
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it is sufficiently funny.
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it is likely to make readers angry.
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nothing else comes to mind for a lead.
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Reporters writing speech or meeting stories should check the attribution to make sure
it always comes at the beginning of a sentence or paragraph.
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its location is varied throughout the story.
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it always comes at the end of a sentence or paragraph.
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it always includes the phrase "according to."
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If a speaker delivers a personal attack on another person during a speech, a reporter covering that speech should
omit the personal attack so as to avoid libeling the person attacked.
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include the personal attack but write a story with the response for the next day.
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include a response from person who has been attacked in the same story that reports the speech.
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include the personal attack and wait for the target of the attack to respond.
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If a speaker makes a questionable assertion of fact during a speech, the reporter should
report what the speaker said but note that its accuracy is in doubt.
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check out the facts.
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omit the statement entirely.
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report what the speaker said without comment or correction.
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