Las libertades económicas comunitarias y las normas ambientales de los Estados

(Please use the bubble sheet for all answers.)

There are no right or wrong answers, just your opinion.

Media Use:

For the following set of questions, please indicate how much you would normally use these media for gathering news and information on current events. Use a scale where 1 means that you never use it, and 5 indicates that you would use it very often.

Never Very Often

1. Local Newspaper 1 2 3 4 5

2. Local Television 1 2 3 4 5

3. Radio 1 2 3 4 5

4. Network TV 1 2 3 4 5

5. Cable News 1 2 3 4 5

6. Internet News Sites 1 2 3 4 5

7. Email 1 2 3 4 5

8. News magazines 1 2 3 4 5

9. Student Newspaper 1 2 3 4 5

10. Please indicate how much average time in a week do you watch TV news?

(Round up to nearest hour.)

A. 0-2 hours B. 3-5 hours C. 6-8 hours D. 9-11 hours E. More than 12 hours

11. Which of the following best describes where you attended high school (or were home schooled)?

A. West Tennessee B. Middle Tennessee C. East Tennessee D. Out of state

For the following set of questions, please indicate how much you would normally use television for gathering news and information. Use a scale where one (1) is strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

(“I watch news on TV because…”) ^Strongly

Disagree

Strongly Agree

12. I want to be informed about important events. 1 2 3 4 5

13. I want to get some entertainment. 1 2 3 4 5

14. I want information I can trust. 1 2 3 4 5

15. I want to know about things I can tell other people. 1 2 3 4 5 16. I want to know in advance about things like higher prices. 1 2 3 4 5 17. It is important to see the news from beginning to end 1 2 3 4 5 18. I usually plan my evenings so I do not miss the news on TV 1 2 3 4 5 19. I usually check the time so that I do not miss the news on TV 1 2 3 4 5

Quality

You will be shown a series of eight television news stories. For the following set of questions, watch each video story and answer the questions that correspond for that particular story.

Story One:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

1—Very low quality

Story Two:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

Story Three:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

1—Very low quality

Story Four:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

Story Five:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

Story Six:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

Story Seven:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

Story Eight:

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion.

One (1) indicates strongly disagree and five (5) strongly agree.

Strongly

For the following set of questions, please select one that best describes your opinion. Use a scale where one (1) is very low quality and five (5) is very high quality.

(Write your answer on the back of scan sheet in the area that says, “Do not write in this space”.)

Now, I would like to get some basic demographic information.

133. Gender: (1) Female (2) Male

134. Ethnicity (please indicate which group you most identify with):

(1) Asian (2) Black (3) Caucasian (4) Hispanic (5) Other

135. Age: (1) 18-19 (2) 20-21 (3) 22-23 (4) 24-25 (5) 26 or older

136. Education: (your standing at the beginning of this semester)

(1) Freshman (4) Senior

(2) Sophomore (5) Graduate School

(3) Junior

137. News Experience:

Do you have any background in news? Please fill in that all apply.

(1) Taken courses related to media and/or mass communication (2) Taken courses in journalism

(3) Written or produced stories for school paper or other news program (4) Have experience as working journalist or producer

Thank you for taking part in this survey.

VITA

Charlie Gee was born in 1965 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attended high school in Hendersonville, Tennessee and graduated in 1983. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Middle Tennessee State University in May 1993.

Upon graduation, he continued to work in radio for WGFX-FM in Nashville until 1995. While at WGFX-FM, he was a promotions assistant, music director, and on-air talent. In spring of 1993, he started working part time at WKRN-TV as a video-tape editor. He would later become a full time photojournalist, while working weekends in radio. In late 1995, he joined the staff of WBIR-TV in Knoxville. He would leave a year later to go to WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. Nearly three years later, he returned to Knoxville to the CBS affiliate, WVLT-TV. There he started taking graduate classes in electronic media at the University of Tennessee.

His tenure would be short lived and returned to Nashville to join previous WKRN co-workers at the FOX affiliate news startup at WZTV-TV. He would leave the news industry in March 2002 to concentrate on graduate studies. He started his Masters of Communication at the University of Tennessee that summer and graduated in spring 2004. During that time, he freelanced for national news and cable networks. In fall of 2004, he entered the doctoral program at the University of Tennessee graduating in August 2008.