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Media History And Culture People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate
Ida Tarbell
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Ben Bradlee
2. Studied in a mental instituion - wrote for The New York World under Pullitzer
Roy Bryant
Nellie Bly
Ida B. Wells
Adolph Ochs
3. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine
Ida B. Wells
Charles Coughlin
Roy Bryant
Carl Bernstein
4. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal
Lucy Stone
Nellie Bly
William Lloyd Garrison
Joseph Pulitzer
5. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience
Charles Coughlin
Morley Safer
Mark Twain
Henry Ford
6. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico
Ida Tarbell
Charles Coughlin
Adolph Ochs
Carl Bernstein
7. 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
Henry Ford
Lucy Stone
William Lloyd Garrison
Albert Parsons
8. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize
Joseph Pulitzer
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
Seymour Hersh
Ida B. Wells
9. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent
Mark Felt
Emmett Till
Adolph Ochs
Joseph McCarthy
10. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax
Ida Tarbell
Ida B. Wells
Adolph Ochs
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
11. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment
Morley Safer
Frederick Douglass
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
12. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism
Mark Twain
Ben Bradlee
Thomas Nast
Joseph Pulitzer
13. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly
George WAllace
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
Ida Tarbell
Richard Harding Davis
14. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize
Seymour Hersh
Ben Bradlee
Mark Felt
Ida Tarbell
15. Killed Emmett Till
Nellie Bly
Thomas Nast
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
J.W. Milam
16. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional
William Lloyd Garrison
Susan B. Anthony
Bob Woodward
Joseph Pulitzer
17. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA
Ben Bradlee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emmett Till
Albert Parsons
18. Killed Emmett Till
Ben Bradlee
J.W. Milam
Frederick Douglass
Emmett Till
19. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965
Ben Bradlee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
George WAllace
Samuel Adams
20. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used
William Lloyd Garrison
Carl Bernstein
Ida Tarbell
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
21. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation
Daniel Ellsburg
Lucy Stone
Thomas Paine
Nellie Bly
22. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment
Joseph Pulitzer
Emmett Till
Morley Safer
Thomas Paine
23. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom
Samuel Adams
Lucy Stone
Daniel Ellsburg
Edward Bernays
24. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate
Edward Bernays
Samuel Adams
Joseph McCarthy
Charles Coughlin
25. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket
Seymour Hersh
Emmett Till
Roy Bryant
Henry Ford
26. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War
Samuel Adams
Joseph McCarthy
Morley Safer
Richard Harding Davis
27. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Judith Miller
William Randolph Hearst
28. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Daniel Ellsburg
Emmett Till
Richard Harding Davis
29. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star
Ida Tarbell
William Lloyd Garrison
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
William Randolph Hearst
30. 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
Seymour Hersh
Susan B. Anthony
Edward R. Murrow
Joseph McCarthy
31. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket
Carl Bernstein
Emmett Till
Daniel Ellsburg
William Randolph Hearst
32. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
Mark Twain
J.W. Milam
Edward Bernays
33. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon
Mark Felt
Judith Miller
Adolph Ochs
Bob Woodward
34. 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
Susan B. Anthony
Morley Safer
Frederick Douglass
Mark Felt
35. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'
Judith Miller
Albert Parsons
Henry Ford
Mark Felt
36. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine
Mark Twain
Frederick Douglass
Roy Bryant
Frederick Douglass
37. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
Henry Ford
Morley Safer
Albert Parsons
38. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent
Charles Coughlin
Mark Felt
Joseph Pulitzer
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
39. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat
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40. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience
Lucy Stone
Edward Bernays
Charles Coughlin
Seymour Hersh
41. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times
Seymour Hersh
Edward R. Murrow
Adolph Ochs
William Lloyd Garrison
42. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines
J.W. Milam
Mark Twain
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Judith Miller
43. Author of comon sense - American Revolution
Seymour Hersh
Emmett Till
Bob Woodward
Thomas Paine
44. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly
Edward Bernays
Richard Harding Davis
Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee
45. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism
George WAllace
William Randolph Hearst
Ida B. Wells
Mark Felt
46. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times
Ida Tarbell
Thomas Nast
Adolph Ochs
Edward Bernays
47. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines
Carl Bernstein
Daniel Ellsburg
Carl Bernstein
Mark Twain
48. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War
Mark Twain
George WAllace
Ben Bradlee
Samuel Adams
49. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
Ida B. Wells
Seymour Hersh
Henry Ford
50. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Emmett Till
George WAllace
Mark Twain
Susan B. Anthony