TEST 4 (Chapter 14)

Question 1

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

Answer 1

News

Question 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..

Answer 2

Newsworthiness

Question 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.

Answer 3

Ethnocentrism

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Responsible Capitalism

Question 5

An underlying value held by many US journalists and citizens, it favors the small over the large and the rural over the urban.

Answer 5

Small-town Pastoralism

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Individualism

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Conflict of Interest

Question 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.

Answer 8

Herd Journalism

Question 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.

Answer 9

Sound Bite

Question 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

Answer 10

Public Journalism