An understanding of and respect for the power of media messages is an important media literacy skill.

Responding to a charge of wrongdoing against you by charging the other side with wrongdoing is called

a. begging the question. b. appeal to authority. c. argumentum ad populum. d. tu quoque.

Audiences made up of professors, doctors, and lawyers are often suspicious of _______ as sources in a speech.

A. Academic journals B. Testimony C. Wikipedia D. Experts