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mass media ch.8
Mass Media Chapter 8 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| News | A report on change |
| Newsworthiness | A ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages |
| James Gordon Bennett | Early Penny Press publisher; founder of New York Herald 1835 |
| News Beats | A specific subject or field that a news reporter covers as a specialty, like a police beat, a science beat |
| Bennett Model | An enduring concept of news that emphasizes event-based reporting on deadline |
| Lightning News | Delivered by telegraph |
| Objectivity | A concept in journalism that news should be gathered and told value-free |
| Byline | A line identifying the reporter or writer, usually atop an article |
| Joseph McCarthy | U.S. senator from Wisconsin; fueled anti-communist hysteria 1950-1952 |
| Edward R. Murrow | CBS television reporter who confronted McCarthy on demagoguery |
| Robert Hutchins | Philosopher whose interests included news practices |
| Hutchins Commission | Recommended reforms in news practices to emphasize social responsibility |
| Benjamin Harris | Published Publick Occurrences |
| Publick Occurrences | First colonial newspaper, Boston, 1690 |
| Benjamin Day | Printed first successful penny paper, New York Sun, 1833 |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Emphasized human interest in newspapers; later moved sensationalism to greater heights |
| William Randolph Hearst | Built circulation with sensationalism |
| Yellow Journalism | Sensationalized news accounts |
| Curtis McDougal | His journalism textbook advocated interpretation |
| Editorializing | Opinionated comments that go beyond just stating the straightforward reporting |
| Herbert Gans | Concluded that journalists have mainstream values |
| Ethnocentrism | Seeing things on the basis of personal experience and values |
| Watchdog Function | The news media role to monitor the performance of government and other institutions of society |
| News Hole | Space for news in a newspaper after ads are inserted; time in a newscast for news after ads |
| News Flow | Significance of events worth covering varies from day to day |
| Staffing | Available staff resources to cover news |
| Consensible Nature of News | News organization second-guessing competition in deciding coverage |
| Gatekeepers | Media people influencing messages en route |
| Aggregation Sites | News sites that regurgitate news complied from elsewhere or that offer pass-through links to other sources |
| Arianna Huffington | Founder of online news site Huffington Post |
| News Alerts | Email links to news from search engines on subjects that users request with key search terms |
| Bob Woodward | Carl Bernstein's colleague in the Watergate revelations |
| Carl Bernstein | Washing Post reporter who dug up Watergate |
| Watergate | Nixon administration scandal |
| Investigative Reporting | Enterprise reporting that reveals new information, often startling; most often these are stories that official sources would rather not have told |
| Muckraking | Fanciful term for digging up dirt but that usually is used in a laudatory way for investigative journalism; aimed at public policy reform |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker remembered for her series on monopolistic corruption at Standard Oil |
| Soft News | Geared to satisfying audience's information wants, not needs |
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