Ch. 13

Question 1

News

Answer 1

the process of gathering information and making narrative reports-edited by individuals in a news organization- that created selected frames of reference and help the public make sense of prominent people, important events, and unusual happenings in everyday life.

Question 2

Newsworthiness

Answer 2

the often unstated criteria that journalists use to determine which events and issues should become news reports, including timeliness, proximity, conflict, prominence, human interest, consequence, usefulness, novelty, and deviance.

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

an underlying value held by many U.S. journalists and citizens, it involves judging other countries and cultures according to how they live up to or imitate American practices and ideals.

Question 4

Responsible Capitalism

Answer 4

an underlying value held by many U.S. journalists and citizens, it assumes that businesspeople should compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but to increase prosperity for all.

Question 5

Small-Town Pastoralism

Answer 5

an underlying value held by many U.S. journalists and citizens, it favors the small over the large and the rural over the urban.

Question 6

Individualism

Answer 6

an underlying value held by most U.S. journalists and citizens, it favors individual rights and responsibilities above group needs or institutional mandates.

Question 7

Conflict of Interest

Answer 7

considered unethical, a compromising situation in which a journalist stands to benefit personally from the news report he or she produces.

Question 8

Herd Journalism

Answer 8

a situation in which reporters stake out a house or follow a story in such large groups that the entire profession comes under attack for invading people’s privacy or exploiting their personal tragedies.

Question 9

Sound Bite

Answer 9

in TV journalism, the equivalent of a quote in print; the part of a news report in which an expert, a celebrity, a victim, or a person on the street is interviewed about some aspect of an event or issue.

Question 10

Public Journalism

Answer 10

a type of journalism, driven by citizen forums, that goes beyond telling the news to embrace a broader mission of improving the quality of public life; also called civic journalism.