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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 was the result of the moveable type?
Timelines - news judgement.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

2. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

3. What are paperback books?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

4. What is payola?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

5. What are some ethics issues?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

6. What are the basic elements of news?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Timelines - news judgement.

7. Media
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

8. Medium
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

9. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

10. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.

11. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

12. Who revolutionize photography?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Legislator and Law suits.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

13. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

14. 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.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

15. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
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.

16. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
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.

17. The federal shield law does what?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

18. What are trade books?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

19. Ways radio should be financed
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
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.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

20. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

21. Who popularized 'media?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

22. What are professional books?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.