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Media History And Literacy

Subjects : journalism-and-media, bvat

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1. What are some features of yellow journalism?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

2. Medium
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

3. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

4. 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
Timelines - news judgement.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

5. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

6. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
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
Legislator and Law suits.

7. 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.
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.

8. What are some ethics issues?
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.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Legislator and Law suits.

9. Who popularized 'media?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

10. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

11. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

12. 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.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

13. Ways radio should be financed
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

14. What are trade books?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Timelines - news judgement.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

15. What are professional books?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

16. What is payola?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

17. What was the result of the moveable type?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Legislator and Law suits.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

18. What are some problems with the recording industry?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

19. Media
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

20. Who revolutionize photography?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

21. What are paperback books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

22. The federal shield law does what?
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
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.