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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 trade books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Timelines - news judgement.

2. What are professional books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

3. Medium
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

4. What are some ethics issues?
Legislator and Law suits.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Timelines - news judgement.

5. Who revolutionize photography?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Legislator and Law suits.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

6. Media
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
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.

7. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Legislator and Law suits.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

8. What was the result of the moveable type?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

9. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Legislator and Law suits.

10. What are the basic elements of news?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.

11. What is payola?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Radio - television (user can be passive)

12. The federal shield law does what?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

13. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

14. What are some problems with the recording industry?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

15. What are paperback books?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

16. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

17. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

18. Ways radio should be financed
Timelines - news judgement.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

19. 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.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

20. Who popularized 'media?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

21. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

22. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.