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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?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

2. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

3. What are trade books?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
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.

4. What are professional books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

5. What is payola?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
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.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

6. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Timelines - news judgement.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

7. Who popularized 'media?
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

8. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Timelines - news judgement.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

9. Media
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

10. Ways radio should be financed
Legislator and Law suits.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

11. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

12. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Legislator and Law suits.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

13. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Legislator and Law suits.

14. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Legislator and Law suits.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

15. What was the result of the moveable type?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

16. Medium
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
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.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

17. What are paperback books?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

18. Who revolutionize photography?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

19. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

20. The federal shield law does what?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

21. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

22. What are the basic elements of news?
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Timelines - news judgement.