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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?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Timelines - news judgement.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

2. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

3. What are paperback books?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

4. 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.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

5. What are the basic elements of news?
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Timelines - news judgement.

6. What is payola?
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.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

7. Media
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Radio - television (user can be passive)
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

8. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Legislator and Law suits.

9. Who popularized 'media?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Timelines - news judgement.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

10. What are trade books?
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.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

11. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
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?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

13. What are professional books?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Legislator and Law suits.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

14. Ways radio should be financed
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
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.

15. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

16. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Legislator and Law suits.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

17. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

18. Medium
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

19. 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.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

20. Who revolutionize photography?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
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

21. What was the result of the moveable type?
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

22. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
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.