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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 is the Freedom of Information Act?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Timelines - news judgement.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

2. What are the basic elements of news?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Timelines - news judgement.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

3. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Legislator and Law suits.

4. What are professional books?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

5. What are trade books?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
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.

6. Ways radio should be financed
Timelines - news judgement.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Legislator and Law suits.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

7. Who popularized 'media?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

8. What are paperback books?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

9. Medium
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

10. The federal shield law does what?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

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

12. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

13. What was the result of the moveable type?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

14. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

15. What did Yellow journalism cover?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

16. Who revolutionize photography?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

17. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

18. What are some ethics issues?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Timelines - news judgement.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

19. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

20. What is payola?
Legislator and Law suits.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

21. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Timelines - news judgement.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Radio - television (user can be passive)

22. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
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
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.