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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. Ways radio should be financed
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

2. Who revolutionize photography?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

3. What are professional books?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Timelines - news judgement.

4. Who popularized 'media?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Radio - television (user can be passive)

5. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

6. What are paperback books?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

7. Medium
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

8. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

9. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Timelines - news judgement.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Legislator and Law suits.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

10. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Legislator and Law suits.

11. 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
Timelines - news judgement.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

12. What was the result of the moveable type?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

13. What are some ethics issues?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

14. What are trade books?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
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.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

15. 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.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

16. Media
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

17. What did Yellow journalism cover?
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
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

18. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Timelines - news judgement.
Legislator and Law suits.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

19. The federal shield law does what?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Legislator and Law suits.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

20. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Legislator and Law suits.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.

21. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Legislator and Law suits.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

22. What is payola?
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.
Legislator and Law suits.