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Chapter 11 - Evolving News Flashcards

1
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Pathé Presents the first news reels in Paris

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1909

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First commercial radio news report given

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1920

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Billmore agreement ends the press-radio war

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1933

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Hindenburg explosion coverage shocks and amazes radio audience

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1937

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First network TV news casts given

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1940

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Radio news covers world war two

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1941-1945

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Coverage of Kennedy and Oswald assassination shows the power in the danger of our new up session with live TV news coverage

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1963

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Newspapers take to the world wide web

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1995

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CNN is founded

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1980

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Jon Stewart voted America’s most trusted newscaster

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2009

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Drudge report breaks the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

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1998

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September 11 attacks are planned for maximum TV coverage

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2001

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Short films (around 10 min. Long about the news of the day) dealing with current events, shown in movie theaters prior to the advent of television

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Newsreels

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Stories about events that are recurrent or long lasting such as floods or other natural disasters

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Residual news

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On-air discussions about the news

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Commentaries

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16
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Happenings that would not have occurred if media were not there to record them

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Pseudo events

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17
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Independent journalists who are paid only for material used

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Stringers

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18
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Longform recorded examination of a social problem or historical subject

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Documentary

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The difference between what a government says in with the public believes to be true

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Credibility gap

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20
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Information that users can access whenever they want

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News on demand

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An experimental system for delivering electronic newspaper so homes via television sets

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Video text

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Early online news services

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Bulletin board services (BBSs)

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Television clips that users can access whenever they want

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Video on-demand (VOD)

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The presentation of information that is timely, important, and interesting to its audience.

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News

25
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Characteristics that define news, including timeliness, importance, and interest.

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News values

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And angle, or perspective that makes information interesting to the audience.

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Peg

27
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The primary news reader, who appears in the broadcast news studio.

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Anchor

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Reporting the news with equipment that enables transmission be a satellite.

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Satellite news gathering (SNG)

29
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Reporting that uses portable field equipment.

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Electronic news gathering (ENG)

30
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Television correspondence to work alone with the laptop computer and a handheld camera in the field.

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BackPack journalists

31
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Point of view that is generally purported to be anti-big business, pro-big government, anti-religion, and anti-Republican.

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Liberal bias

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Point of view that is generally purported to be pro-big business, anti-big government, pro religion, and anti—Democrat.

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Conservative bias

33
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Failure of the news media to report on radical points of view.

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Centrist bias

34
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A subtle form of slanting that manifests itself and understated Ways

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Creeping bias

35
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Non-military reporters attached to a military unit.

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Embedded Journalists

36
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When were news reels replaced by television news?

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News reels were replaced by television news in the 1950s.

37
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Who broadcasted the results of the 1916 presidential election?

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Lee De Forest

38
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What was the Biltmore Agreement? Which year? And between which two broadcasting networks?

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According to the Biltmore agreement, the radio networks would air only two 5-minute news casts each day. But this only lasted for a year. This agreement was between executives from the Columbia broadcasting system (CBS) & the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in 1933.

39
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What kind of audio recording device was known to Americans prior to WW2…

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The wire recorder. A device able to capture sound on a thin wire.

40
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Who was the first all-news radio station?

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KFAX (K-Facts) in 1960. They invented the “newspaper of the air” format by reading the entire newspaper over air for 24 hours a day

41
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Which Murrow’s programs became the model for today’s TV newsmagazine programs?

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CBC’s 60 Minutes and 20/20

42
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In the 1950’s, who produced classic documentaries such as “Harvest of Shame”?

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Edward R. Murrow & Fred Friendly

43
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When did America witness its first see-it-as-it-happens national news event?

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2 days after the assassination of president JFK when Lee Harvey Oswald’s was shot by Jack Ruby (Dallas, night club owner).

44
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Who launched CNN in 1980?

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Ted Turner launched CNN, the 1st live, 24 hour a day, all-news cable network

45
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Fox News started by Roger Ailes as a conservative alternative to what they felt was a liberal CNN in what year?

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1997

46
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Mead Data Central, for example started Nexis a full tax newspaper database in the year ….

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1978

47
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What were the first two major papers to go online in 1993?

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Two of the first major papers to go online this way were the San Jose Mercury News & the Chicago Tribune both of which were available on AOL in 1993

48
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The release of the World Wide Web in _________ made navigation on the Internet easier and encourage many more newspapers to establish online editions.

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1993

49
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This type of journalism is the act of every day citizens-with a professional journalism training or experience-playing an active role in collecting, reporting, and analyzing the news.

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Citizen journalism or participatory journalism

50
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What is a whistleblower?

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Whistleblower is every citizen who exposes corruption or incompetence.

51
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In television news, what are the on-camera partners in the field called?

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In television news, the on-camera reporters in the field are known as correspondents. These are the reporters who do on-location stand-ups- segments in which the reporter faces the camera with the news scene in the background.

52
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Who is the chair of News Corporation, an international media conglomerate that owns, among many other media properties, major newspapers around the world(most significantly, the Wall Street Journal)….

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Rupert Murdoch

53
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Examples of Peg and what they mean…

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Proximity - the news has something to do with where the audience member works or live

Prominence - the news related in some way to someone well known to the audience, perhaps a celebrity in the realm of entertainment, sports, or politics

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