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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 is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

2. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Legislator and Law suits.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

3. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Legislator and Law suits.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

4. What are trade books?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

5. The federal shield law does what?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
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.

6. Who revolutionize photography?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Legislator and Law suits.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

7. Media
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

8. Medium
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

9. What is payola?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

10. Ways radio should be financed
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.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

11. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

12. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

13. Who popularized 'media?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Legislator and Law suits.

14. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

15. What are the basic elements of news?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.

16. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

17. What are professional books?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Legislator and Law suits.

18. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

19. What was the result of the moveable type?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

20. What are some ethics issues?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
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.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

21. What are paperback books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

22. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Legislator and Law suits.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Timelines - news judgement.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)