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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 'cool' of the 'hot-cool model'?
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.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.

2. What are some ethics issues?
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy

3. Who revolutionize photography?
Timelines - news judgement.
George Eastman - invented the wet plates in 1877
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll

4. Who started publishing books in the mid 1400's ?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Radio - television (user can be passive)
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

5. Media
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Timelines - news judgement.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

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

7. The federal shield law does what?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

8. Ways radio should be financed
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.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)

9. What is payola?
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.
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Timelines - news judgement.

10. What is the 'hot' of the 'hot-cool model'?
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Timelines - news judgement.

11. What are the 2 ways media laws have developed?
Legislator and Law suits.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
A means of mass communication - as newspapers - magazines or television.

12. What are the basic elements of news?
Legislator and Law suits.
Timelines - news judgement.
Books - newspapers - and magazines (high degree of thinking)
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.

13. Medium
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
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)

14. What are paperback books?
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Timelines - news judgement.
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.

15. What is Government in the Sunshine state?
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.
Advertiser influence - Fairness/balance - Reporter bias - Objectivity - Conflict of interest - Privacy
Legislator and Law suits.

16. Who popularized 'media?
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Requires most Government meeting to be help in public.

17. What are some features of yellow journalism?
Legislator and Law suits.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Defined on where they are sold. Newsstand - chain store - supermarket.

18. What was the result of the moveable type?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Legislator and Law suits.
Crime - divorce - scandal - sex - sports - gossip - disaster.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.

19. What are trade books?
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Protects journalists at the state level (passed in house - NOT senate)
General Public- bookstores - and libraries. Hardbound or Paperbound.
Scare headlines - sensational pictures - stunts - crusades for less fortunate - fakes stories - lurid stories.

20. What are professional books?
Something occupying a position or having a condition midway between extremes.
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Radio - television (user can be passive)

21. What are some problems with the recording industry?
Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan in 1964
Books for professional people (normally for work) Types include technical - science - medical and business.
Johannes Gutenberg - with moveable metal type.
Label owned by media - artist list control of music - indie music musicians not harassed by producers - chain ownership of radio station.

22. What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Allow for full or partial release of US government documents.
Wide spread circulation of the written word. Amount of people that could actually read.
1. Philanthropy 2. Tax on receivers 3. Advertising 4. Toll
Paying disc jockeys to get their records played