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Media History And Literacy

Subjects : journalism-and-media, bvat

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Answer 22 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

2. What are professional books?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

3. Media
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

4. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

5. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

6. Who revolutionize photography?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Legislator and Law suits.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

7. Ways radio should be financed
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Legislator and Law suits.

8. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Legislator and Law suits.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

9. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Timelines - news judgement.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

10. The federal shield law does what?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

11. What are the basic elements of news?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Timelines - news judgement.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

12. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

13. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

14. What was the result of the moveable type?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

15. What are some ethics issues?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Timelines - news judgement.

16. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

17. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

18. What are trade books?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

19. What is payola?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

20. What are paperback books?
Legislator and Law suits.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

21. Medium
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

22. Who popularized 'media?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.