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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 ethics issues?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

2. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

3. Medium
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

4. What are trade books?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

5. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
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.

6. Ways radio should be financed
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Legislator and Law suits.

7. Who revolutionize photography?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

8. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Legislator and Law suits.

9. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

10. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

11. What was the result of the moveable type?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

12. What are the basic elements of news?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

13. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

14. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

15. Media
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

16. What is payola?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

17. Who popularized 'media?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

18. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Timelines - news judgement.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

19. The federal shield law does what?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

20. What did Yellow journalism cover?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

21. What are paperback books?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

22. What are professional books?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Legislator and Law suits.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.