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The Media are essential Components of our lives There are no mainstream Media Everything from the margin moves to the center Nothing is \”New\” New media are always scary Activism and analysis are not the same thing There is no \”they\”

Communication across society

Communication within a community

Communication one-on-one

Communication within yourself

How we socially interact at a number of levels through messages

The process of educating young people and new members about the values , social norms and knowledge of a group or society

the value of moderation in all things

NBC and CBS have been in the center of the Janet Jackson \”Wardrobe Malfunction\”

best known for his statement \”The Medium is the Message\”

describes media economics as having a \”long tail\” and a \”short head\”

Media now travel with us everywhere

Two of the major players in the American media market that illustrate the strong concentration of ownership in individual media.

Voters with strong opinions are likely to change them because of media effects

The person most responsible for creating the fair use doctrine for American copyright law

The belief that Americans should be allowed to freely express themselves originated with

Established truth as an absolute defense against libel

Passed by Congress following the 9/11 attacks which expanded the ability of the FBI to look into people’s media use and tap their phones

any published statement that unjustifiable exposes someone to ridicule or contempt

Why truth is not always an effective defense against libel

Established the actual malice standard in libel law applied to public figures as well as public officials

What did the Supreme court suggest judges to participants in the trial after overturning the Sam Sheppard conviction?

Court ruled cable news channel could be dropped temporarily from broadcasting tape recordings of conversations between a criminal defendant and his lawyer in which case?

Several newspapers were initially prevented from printing the pentagon papers

Ruling: Obscenity is not protected by the first amendment

The first U.S. copy right protected for how long

requires that stations give all candidates equal access to non-news air time

The first amendment does not protect people from being sued for statements that are what?

Editorial Cartoons are given protection

A Newspaper can claim it is not libel and defends itself using which case?

Lady Gaga sued a company for using her name for a clothing line using what grounds?

A photographer goes onto private property and takes a picture of a woman sunbathing, she can sue on what grounds?

a religious or philosophical code of behavior

a rational means of decision making when both alternatives are equally attractive or unattractive

Ethical behavior comes from striking a balance between excess and defect

You should act as though what you do will become universal law

That which is virtuous provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number

Justice is possible when decisions are made without consideration the social status of the people involved

covering events that are lurid and highly emotional

Newspaper that caused a great deal of controversy for running a computer manipulated photo that showed prostitutes in Cuba soliciting tourists while police looked on

Why did car dealers pull their ads from the San Jose Mercury News?

involves making decisions where no answer seems to be acceptable

When a reporter makes the decision to talk to sources on two sides of an issue, he is making use of what?

A reporter decides to put the good of the public at large over the needs of the victim’s family, they are making use of what?

-giving positive coverage of a charity event being chaired by the golfing buddy of your newspaper’s publisher -covering a sports franchise owned by the same parent company as your television station -reporting about another media corporation your parent company partners with

Which type of company would be held to the highest standard?

Associated press photographer Richard Drew justified the publishing of the disturbing photos he took on 9/11 by saying they were history in the making

An example of a conflict of interest issue is when a newspaper buys a sports team and then reports on that team

Newspapers and magazines can keep sensationalistic stories out of the news by refusing to cover them

News photos do little to shape how people perceive a war

Having a code of ethics will protect the news organization from charges of misconduct

Ethics deal with problems that have clear right and wrong answers

Earliest form of writing

A writing system where abstract symbols stand for and object or idea

an early writing surface made of reeds by Egypt

an early writing surface made from animal skin

Printing was invented by who?

The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary took approx. how many years?

Important newspaper mag. and book publisher in colonial and revolutionary America

Fahrenheit 451, I know why the caged bird sings, The scarlet letter, and Slaughter house five

It recommends titles to buyer based on their previous purchases

The customer can carry ten or more books in the space of one book

Critics charge that substantial portions Greg Mortenson’s memoir Three cups of tea were fabricated

Author Margaret /seltzer was caught fabricating a memoir about growing up as a half-white, half native-American gang member in Los Angeles

Prior to the development of Gutenberg’s printing press, there were no books

Scriptoria was an early typeface designed by Gutenberg

Gutenberg’s invention of movable type led to the world’s first mass media.

The federal government is one of the largest publishers in the US

Colleges make more money on used textbooks than on new ones

The people who choose which textbook to use are also the people who buy them

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne despised the women novelists of his era because their domestic novels sold much better than his serious novels

Publishers view books as one more product in the entertainment business

Best know for her covers of Vanity fair and Rolling Stone magazines

The first truly national mag. with a large circulation published in the US

The most popular mag. topic for 2010 as measure by page count

Helen Gurley Brown was the Long-time editor of which mag.?

Mags. such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Vogue are known as

The biggest circulating mag. in the US

Most modern women’s mags can trace their success back to.

Why Calvin Klein’s ads featuring model Kate Moss have be controversial

Advertisements credited with building acceptance in the public for alternative images of beauty

Young is better than old Pretty is better than ugly Nothing is better than a dead celebrity

Why mag. editors are often unwilling to put minorities on their covers

Benjamin Franklin published the first photos ever in a mag.

Esquire, Redbook, and Time are examples of consumer mags

Trade mags are also known as business-to-business mags

The Crisis founded by WEB DuBois is a politically conservative mag designed to support the concerns of Fortune 500 companies

FBL Mags target people who are football fans

Glamour mag. attracted a massive reader response in 2009 when it featured a nearly nude image of plus-size model Lizzi Miller as an illustration with an article about body image.

Advertorials are mag articles that are highly critical of the advertising industry

As of 2002, Cosmopolitan mag had only had five covers with African-American models since 1964

Owners of tablet computers tend to read fewer paper mags than do non-owners of tablets

When the Virginia tech shooting happened the website___

The first English lang. papers were published in Amsterdam starting in

Paper that is regarded as the first Newspaper in the North American colonies

Which paper was published by Benjamin Franklin

Which paper is regarded as the first of the penny papers

Journalistic objectivity began with

What phrase was used for a lively illustrated brans of news reporting of the 1920’s

Who is best remembered for his accounts from London in WW2

Event that helped bring CNN to prominence

Most American newspapers are owned by

The penny papers were successful because of their coverage of foreign affairs, national politics and the economy

New York papers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer competed for readers by using sensational stunts

Until the 1960’s, newscasts offered by the networks were only fifteen minutes long

Gannet runs the largest newspaper chain in the US

Today chains and conglomerates publish about 20 percent of all American newspapers

The Los Angeles Times has engaged in a process known as mainstreaming. This means that the paper is trying to use news sources who are as diverse as the population of the city of Los Angeles

Community newspapers remain important today because they provide information that ppl can’t get anywhere else

Community papers are failing at a record pace

In 2011 the Virginia Tech student newspaper was unable to keep its Website online because of the large number of people trying to access it after a shooting left 2 people dead

The Chicago Defender has always tried to be both an activist paper and a profitable paper

Emile Berliner is famous for what?

The medium Guglielmo Marconi helped invent

What developed during WW1

Includes: United Fruit Co. General Electric Westinghouse

The most popular radio drama of the late 1920’s

music that people perform for each other in a social setting

Who is famous for inventing the Walkman

Before 1948 recordings of popular black music were referred to as

Best known for founding Motown records

Producer who worked for Johnny Cash, the Dixie Chicks, and Red Hot Chili Peppers

Motown was one of the first recording labels publishing songs for black artists to perform as hits rather than providing a source of covers for white artists

In Los Angeles, Spanish-language stations have low ratings and can’t attract enough advertisers to turn a profit.

Political talk radio is populated primarily by liberal hosts

Shock jocks draw listeners by making offensive and outrageous comments on the air

National public Radio’s Morning Edition news program attracts a larger daily audience than any of the television networks’ morning news programs.

Content broadcast on satellite radio has to meet the same level of content decency as terrestrial radio does

New car audio systems allow drivers to listen to streaming audio sources like Pandora as well as CDs or terrestrial radio

Brian Ibbot is the host of the podcast Coverville

Songs recorded by someone other than the original artist

Major provider of consumer satellite radio

Where does Tyler Perry run his studio

The first major movie with multiple scenes and a plot

Who developed the earliest portable movie cameras

The director of Birth of a Nation

One of the earliest movie stars in the US

In the 30’s and 40’s, the studios required theaters to schedule a large number of lesser movies in order to get one or two major films.

Movie attendance peaked in what year?

The large number of smaller theaters grouped together that replaced the large Art Deco movie palaces

The film that created the idea of the summer blockbuster

The movie that sold the most tickets of all time

Movie that proved the value of Internet promotion

The Hollywood Ten are the writers who made David Letterman a star

As 0f 2010 the movie Avatar had the largest domestic box office of all time

Movies are rated by a board consisting of Los Angeles are parents

The movies with the biggest box offices are generally rated G or PG because parents feel safe about bringing their children to see them

Directors often \”re-cut\” their films taking our violence or explicit sex in order to move their movie from an NC-17 to an R

Big budget movies can earn as much from ancillary rights as they do from the domestic box office.

Long-tail movie sources such as Netflix and iTunes allow people in rural areas to see obscure movies that would never play in their local theaters

Movie rental source Netflix does most of its business renting current bestselling DVD releases

India’s movie industry in Mumbai

Who invented the basic technology for television

PBS attracted its first significant audiences with which show?

Television networks cannot require their affiliates to carry all of the networks programs

BET was the nation’s first all-horse racing cable network

Reasons a child might watch television

Twitter was originally created so people could share their answer to what question

What was created to allow incompatible computer to talk with each other

Approximately 40% of the ppl living on the African continent have access to the Internet

Information from the Internet may be unreliable because it does not have the gatekeeper deciding what info should or should not be published

High-speed internet

Morning and Afternoon commute

Why is the gay market seen as desirable to advertisers

When Sony launched its PlayStation 2 it did relatively little advertising because it did not have enough of the systems ready to sell

The biggest change in outdoor advertising over the last ten years has been the growth of digital billboards

Urban Marketing targets who?

A group of people brought together to talk about how they perceive an organization or issue

President Obama helped control news about his college drug use by

Today the central notion of public relations is the model of two-way interaction between an institution and its publics

Public relations is mostly about talking and meeting with people

How did Tim Pool cover the occupy movement as an independent journalist?

When did tv go digital

Ny State made first telecast

What can you do to keep from violating the law without knowing it or having your rights violated without knowing it

The media’s role in reporting the news

What is a journalist’s responsibility when it comes to the first amendment

Do we have a balance in journalism today?

Ideas, Characteristics of a person group or political party

What kind of government does the US have