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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. Who popularized 'media?
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964

2. What are some problems with the recording industry?
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.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)

3. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Timelines - news judgement.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

4. What are some ethics issues?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

5. What are paperback books?
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

6. Who revolutionize photography?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

7. Ways radio should be financed
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Radio - television (user can be passive)

8. What are some features of yellow journalism?
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.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877

9. Medium
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

10. What are trade books?
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

11. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

12. Media
Legislator and Law suits.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

13. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Timelines - news judgement.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

14. What is payola?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Legislator and Law suits.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

15. What did Yellow journalism cover?
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

16. What are the basic elements of news?
Radio - television (user can be passive)
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Timelines - news judgement.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

17. What is the 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.

18. What are professional books?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Radio - television (user can be passive)

19. The federal shield law does what?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
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.

20. What was the result of the moveable type?
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.

21. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played

22. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Legislator and Law suits.