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mass media 8 & 9
| 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, first to assign reporters to sports regularly |
| 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 1950-1954 |
| 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..... said social, economic, and intellectual levels of audience to coincide |
| 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 ads 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 compiled 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 Berstein | Washington 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 of 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 |
| genres | broad thematic categories of media content |
| authentic performance | a live performance with an on-site audience |
| mediated performance | a performance modified and adjusted or delivery to an audience by mass media |
| mediated message | adjusted to be effective when carried by the mass media |
| black music | folk genre from American black slave experience |
| rhythm and blues | distinctive style of black music that took form in 1930s |
| hillbilly music | folk genre from rural Appalachia, southern white experience |
| rockabilly | a splicing of rock n' roll and hillbilly used for early rock music |
| rock n' roll | a popular dance music characterized by a heavy beat, simple melodies, and guitar, bass and drum instrumentation, usually on a 12 bar structure |
| Sam Phillips | a Memphis music producer who recorded and promoted early rock music |
| rap | dance music with intense bass, rhyming riffs, the lyrics often with anti-establishment defiance |
| Joseph Pulitzer | New York newspaper publisher in 1880s ; organized the first newspaper sports department |
| KDKA | Pittsburgh radio station that pioneered sports broadcasting in 1920s |
| Henry Luce | magazine publisher known for Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and others |
| Roone Arledge | ABC television executive responsible for Wide World o Sports in 1961 |
| loss leader | a product sold at a loss to attract customers |
| Ulysses | James Joyce novel banned in the United States until 1930 court decision |
| obscenity | sexually explicit media depictions that the government can ban |
| pornography | sexually explicit depictions that are protected from government bans |
| Miller Standard | current U.S Supreme Court definition of sexually explicit depictions that are protected by the first amendment from government bans |
| Sam Ginsberg | Figure in U.S Supreme Court decision to bar sales of pornography to children |
| George Carlin | Comedian whose satires on vulgarities prompted rules on radio programming to shield children |
| pacifica case | U.S Supreme Court ruling to keep indecency off over-air broadcast stations at times when children are likely to be listening or watching |
| Andre Bazin | French film critic who devised the term auteur for significant cutting edge filmmakers |
| auteur | a filmmaker recognized for significant and original treatments |
| studio system | a production-line movie system devised by hollywood in the 1920s |
| Harlequin | Canadian publisher known for romances with cliched characters, settings and themes; the term is applied generically to pulp romances |
| pulp fiction | quickly and inexpensively produced easy-to-read short novels |
| high art | requires sophisticated taste to be appreciated |
| low art | can be appreciated by almost everybody |
| elitist | mass media should gear to sophisticated audiences |
| kitsch | pejorative word for trendy, trashy, low art |
| populist | mass media should seek largest possible audiences |
| Dwight Macdonald | said all pop art is kitsch |
| High-, middle-, and low- culture audiences | continuum identified by Herbert Gans |
| highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow | levels of media content sophistication that coincide with audience tastes |
| popular art | art that tries to succeed in the marketplace |
| pop art revisionism | the view that pop art has inherent value |
| Susan Sontag | saw cultural, social value in pop art |
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