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Media History And Culture People

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1. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico






2. Wrote The Alarm - was in an interracial marriage - led the International Working People's Association. He was convicted for the bomb attack on city police known as the Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Riots - Anarchist






3. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used






4. Studied in a mental instituion - wrote for The New York World under Pullitzer






5. Killed Emmett Till






6. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'






7. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom






8. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat


9. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association






10. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate






11. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism






12. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life






13. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used






14. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life






15. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






16. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation






17. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965






18. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






19. Racist - hated the Irish - yellow journalism - cartoons - wrote for Harper's Weekly - founder of 'Watchdog journalism' because of his work against Tammany Hall - is considered the father of the American Cartoon






20. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat


21. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize






22. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket






23. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






24. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal






25. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal






26. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate






27. Killed Emmett Till






28. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico






29. Racist - hated the Irish - yellow journalism - cartoons - wrote for Harper's Weekly - founder of 'Watchdog journalism' because of his work against Tammany Hall - is considered the father of the American Cartoon






30. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






31. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






32. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






33. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism






34. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






35. Radio journalist - CBS partner with Fred Friendly and made 'Hear it Now' and 'see it now' covered racial integration and the Korean war - combated anti-communism - did a report on Joseph McCarthy






36. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






37. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism






38. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






39. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






40. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times






41. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional






42. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA






43. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






44. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965






45. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'






46. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom






47. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience






48. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association






49. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






50. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon