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Media History And Culture People

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1. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Former slave - captivating and articulate speaker - editor of his own paper - had a book 'The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass -' was discovered by William Lloyd Garrison in 1841 - who then asked Douglass to speak at an anti-slavery convention. A






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






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






27. 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






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


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


30. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






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






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






33. Killed Emmett Till






34. Killed Emmett Till






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






36. Former slave - captivating and articulate speaker - editor of his own paper - had a book 'The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass -' was discovered by William Lloyd Garrison in 1841 - who then asked Douglass to speak at an anti-slavery convention. A






37. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






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






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






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






41. 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






42. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






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






44. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






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






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






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






48. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






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






50. 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