Chap 12 Flashcards
Associated Press
- 1948
- Share costs of news by telegraph
- New York Associated Press
Major Events Influencing How we gather news
Civil War Newsreels WWII 1960's Vietnam War
Civil War
- Accreditation=process by which the govt certifies members of the press. covering govt related events
- established concept of photojournalism (Matthew Brady is 1st news photographer)
Newsreels
- 10 min long newscasts (weekly updates)
- news events, politics, celebs, sports, feature stories (more lighthearted)
- became more popular w/ WWII
WWII
- news gets more personal
- Ernie Pyle (wanted to tell personal stories about soldiers)
- Golden Age for news
- Edward R Murrow; most celebrated radio reporter (“good night & good luck”)
Radio Becomes big outlet for news
prohibition, stock market crash, great depression, FDR election, Pearl Harbor, Normandy Invasion, Roosevelt’s funeral, signing Armistice that ended WWII
The 1960’s- Golden Age of TV
- Jackie Kennedy hosts TV crews at white house
- Kennedy assassination in ‘63
- 4 day funeral coverage
- Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV
Vietnam War
- Protesters were covered in Daily News in the 60’s
- mainstream media gave a voice to distension in greater depth than before
TV over the years
70’s- Watergate and Nixon’s resignation
80’s- Ted Turner founded CNN; “All news, all the time”
90’s-TV newsrooms began to shrink
Iraq War
“Embedded Journalists”- during war in 2003, more than 600 reporters were allowed to embed w/ US troops
Backpack journalists/MMJ- multiplatorm journalism
Influencing Public Opinions
Agenda Setting- belief that journalists don’t tell you what and whom to think about
Consensus Journalism- the flow of info from news organizations to their audiences
Flow of info from news organizations to their audiences
Consumer perspective
Selective exposure
Selection perception
Selective exposure
if something conflicts w/ our beliefs we avoid it. we also seek out messages that we agree w/.
Selection Perception
we tend to perceive things according to our beliefs. not necessarily how they really are.
Opinion Journalism + Credibility
Reality TV
“Fake News”
Journalists vs Pundits
