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Media History And Literacy

Subjects : journalism-and-media, bvat

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1. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Legislator and Law suits.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

2. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

3. What did Yellow journalism cover?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

4. What are the basic elements of news?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

5. Media
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
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.

6. Ways radio should be financed
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

7. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Timelines - news judgement.

8. The federal shield law does what?
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

9. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Legislator and Law suits.

10. What is payola?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

11. Medium
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Legislator and Law suits.
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.

12. What are some problems with the recording industry?
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.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

13. Who revolutionize photography?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

14. Who popularized 'media?
Legislator and Law suits.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

15. What are paperback books?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Timelines - news judgement.

16. What are professional books?
Legislator and Law suits.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

17. What are some features of yellow journalism?
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.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

18. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Timelines - news judgement.
Legislator and Law suits.

19. What are trade books?
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.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

20. What are some ethics issues?
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

21. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

22. What was the result of the moveable type?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Legislator and Law suits.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.