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Media History And Culture People

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






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






3. Killed Emmett Till






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






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






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






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






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






9. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






10. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






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






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

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13. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine






14. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






15. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






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






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






18. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






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

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20. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






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






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






23. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly






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






25. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






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






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






28. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






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






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






41. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






49. 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






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