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Sumner Redstone's company. Links to subsidiaries, including Paramount movie studie; MTC, Nichelodeon: Viacom
News is: nonficiton reports on waht people want or need to know
public relations: messages intended to win support
One-time bound publications of enduring value on a single topic: books
ongoing bound publications of continuing value with diverse topics: magazines
unbound publicaitons, generally weekly or daily, with diverse, timely content: newpapers
Books, magazines and newpapers: print media
recordings, radio, television, web, whose messages are stored electronically fro transmission and retrieval: electronic media
Underlying technology for movies is photographic chemistry: chemical medium
Print media, which requires intimate audience involvement: hot media
Cool media: can be used passively
Melding of media role as purveyor of information and entertainment: infotainment
Divides functions of media companies into a creation category, like producing a television program, to a distribution fucktion, like delivering the program on a cable system: content-distribution model
A single corporation or individual's total control over prouction that can stifle competion.: vertical integration
looks at mass media in terms of development in a sequence of innovation, entrepreneurship and stability: maturation model
new media: whatever is the current mdia technology whose potential has not been fully recognized
when technology is being explored for what becomes a new mass medium: innovation stage
entrepreneurial stage: when profit possibilities are being found for new media technology
when the technology and audience become well defined as an identificable industry comes into existence: stability stage
elitists: focus on media responsibility to society
applaud media that attracts a large following: populists
Number of copies of a publication that circulate: circulation
Government-required paid notices: legals
Media focus on a narrower audience segments: demassification
Emerging narriowly focsed advertising vehicles: alternative media
combing of companies into large compaines: conglomeration
Robert Maxwell: Global media mogul who overexpaned
Ben Bagdikian: critic of media consolidation
Converstaion of all media to a common digital technology: melding
Efficient, compact storage and transmission of data: digitization
integration of text, sound and video with the audience controlling the sequence of presentation: configurable video
Sending news to readers' computer screens: electronic delivery
William Randolph Hearst: Chain owner who dictated contents of all his newpapers
Newspaper chain: company that owns several newpapers
Gannett: A leading U.S. newspaper chain with 90 dailies
local autonomy: independence from chain headquarters
company headquarters in a faraway city: absentee ownership
Collective gargaining agent at 134 U.S. Canandian newspapers: Newspapre Guild
Garnett national daily founded in 1981: USA Today
Creator of USA Today: Allen Neuharth
Second largest U.S. daily newspaper: Wall Street Journal
Cofounder of Wall Street Journal 1882: Charles Dow
Cofounder of Wall Street Journal: Edward Jones
Created the modern Wall Street Journal: Barney Kilgore
FOunded the Christain Science Monitor in 1908: Mary Barker Eddy
boston-based national U.S. newsparer: Christain Science Monitor
Most respected U.S. hometown daily: NEw Your Times
Corrupt New York leader in the 1860s and 1870s who exposed by the New York Times: William Marcy Tweed
NEw YOrk Times reporter on the Tweed Ring scandal: George Jones
Alabama police commisioner who sued the NEw York Times for libel over a 1960s antiracial segregation advertisement: L.B Sullivan
Times v. Sullivan: 1964 case that relzed libel restriction on the news media in covering public policy
Secret government study that, when reported int he NEw York Times, led to a Suprme Court decision that discouraged censorship: Pentagon papers
Reporter who committed serial fabrications in the New York Times: Jayosn Blair
Established reputaiton covering Watergate: Washington Post
Conservative newspaper: Washington Times
Largest circulation U.S. hometown dailty: Los Angeles
Edited primarily for readers in a defined region: hometown daily
Free-standing insert (FSI): preprinted advertising ciculars inserted in newspaprers
Clustering: busying newspaper with adjointing circulations to cut operating costs
Lsting readers' names: telephone book journalism
An advertsing paper without news: shopper
Among the founderes of Village Voice: Norman Mailer, Don Wolf
Model for contemporary alternative press: Village Voice
Generally antiestablishment publication for a young alenated audience: alternative press
Countercultre newspapers: challenge, defy mainstream vaules
Founder of the Advocate: Jim Michaels
First gay newsper, 1967: the Advocate
Daily black newspaer that continues with probing journalism: Chicago Daily Defener
First black newspaper, by John Russwurm and Saamuel Cornish: Freedom' journal
Antislavery black newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass: North Star
Black newspaper founed by W.E.B Dubois: Crisis
Leading Spanish-language dialy, Miami: El Nuevo Herald
Percentage of persons or households that a newpaper reaches in its circulation area: penetration
Space in a publication after ads are inserted: news hole
Foreign correspondent known for CNN work from world hot spots: Christiane Amanpour
From the founding of the colonies to the American revolution: colonical period
Published Publick Occurrences: Benjamin Harris
First colonial newspaper, Boston: PUblick Occurrences
Defied authories in New York Journal: John Peter Zenger
Urged truth as defense for libel: Andrew Hamilton
Viewed newspapers as instigating revolution: Arthur Schlesinger
Partisan Period: From the American Revolution at least to the 1830s.
Essays with diverse views on the form the new nation should take: Federalist papers
John Adams: Federalist president
Discouraged criticism of government: Alien and Sedition Acts
Punished for criticising the majority party: David Bowen
Anit-federalist president: Thomas Jefferson
Member of Congress jailed for criticism of President Adams: Matthew Lyon
Published the New York Sun: Benjamin Day
First penny newspaper: New York Sun
One-cent newsppaer geared to mass audience and mass advertising: penny press period
Organized the first methodical news coverage: James Gordon Bennett
Pioneered editorials: Horace Greeley
Invented the telegraph: Samuel Morse
Delivered by telegraph: lightning news
Most important information first: inverted pyramid
co-op to gather, distribute news: associated press
telling news without bias: objective reporting
Late 1800s, marked by sensationalism: yellow press period
emphasized himan interest in newspapers, later sensationalized: joseph pulitzer
Stunt reporter: Nellie Bly
Built circulation with sensationalism: William Randolph Hearst
Illustrator sent by Hearst to find atrocities in Cubia: Federic Remington
Developed the New York times as a serious newspaper: Adolph Ochs
1920s, similar to yellow journalism: jazz journalism
Concluded that journalist have mainstream values: Herbert Gans
Seeign things on the basis of personal experience values: ethnocentrism
Found that most journalist see themelves as policically centrists: John Johnstone
Found that journalists' poitical positions shift with the population: David Weaver
Significance of events worth covering varies from day to day: flow
available staff respurces to cover news: staffing
News organization second-guessing competion in decided coverage: consensible nature of news
Person who decides whether or not to shorten, drop or change a story en route to the mass audience: gatekeeper
Proactive news-gathering: exloratory reporting
Seeking stories that would nto surface on their own and that subjects would prefer not be told: investigative journalism
reporting of Nixon administration scandal: Watergate
Washington Post report who dug up Watergate: Carl Benstein
caustic interview style: adversarial approach to subjects
Geared to satisfying audience's information wants, not needs: soft news
A 2003 Iraq war term for reporters accompanyin or embedded with, U.S. military combat units: embeds
Uncensured field reporting from the Vietnam war: rice-root reporting
pool systme: reporters chosen on a rotating basis to cover an event to which acceess is limited
Union secretary of state who organized Civil War censorship for senstive military news: Edwin Stanton
Civil War reporter remembered mostly for his Antietam battle story: George Smalley
Civil War reporter who was court-martialed for unauthorized, critical Vicksburg battle coverage: Thomas Knox
Communication: ewxchange of ideas, information
intrapersonal communication: talking to oneself
interpersonal communication: usually two people face to face
group communication: more than two people
mass communication: many recipients; not face to face
mass communicators: message crafters
mass message: what is communicated
vehicles tha tcarry messages: mass media
recipients of mass messages: mass audiences
Devised a basic communication model, with Warren Weaver: Cluade Shannon
Devised a basic communication model with Cluade Shannon: Warren Weaver
basic communication model: shows sender, encoding, tgransmission, decoding, receiver
devised the narrative model: harold lasswwell
describes process in words, no schmatics: narrative model
Thomas Bohn: devised the concentric cirlce model, with Ray Hiebert, Don Ungurait
useful radiating model of the mass communication process: concentric circle model
stimulation: stirs someone to communicate
putting something into symbols: encoding
sending a message: transmission
translating a symbolic message: decoding
making sense of a decoded message: internatlization
homophyly: a doing oneness that make communicaiton possible
nonmedia people who influence messages: regulators
try to influence media messages, policies, include citgizen gorups, government agencies: pressure group
gatekeeper-regulator hybrids: media trade, professional groups
impedes communication before messages reaches receiver: noise
sloppy messsage-crafting: semantic noise
interference during trransmission: channel noise
interference at reception site: environmental noise
receiver factor taht impedes communication: filters
informational filter: receiver's knowledge limits impede deciphering symbols
receiver's alertnesss impedes deciphering: physical filter
receiver's state of mind impeds: psychological filter
speading a message: amplification
credence that a topic or issue receives beicause of media attention: status conferral
feedback: recipient's response to the sender
effect: result of mass communication
_____ network's total adult 18-49 rating points: 1/3
Rupert Murdoch: media manipulator
American children see how many commericals each year: 30-40k
Propaganda: information to help or harm a person or organization
pR: laid back promotion of product/organizational person
Newspaper is cold or hot media: hot
books are cold or hot media: hot
movies are cold or hot media: hot
magazines are cold or hot media: cold
radio is cold or hot media: cold
tv is cold or hot media: cold
Estates of society: legislative, executive, judicial, the press
United States government is: libertarian
preferred newspaper over governement: thomas jeffereson
Joseph McCarty was a: sen. from WI, mian job was to hunt out communists
Johannes Gutenberg invented: movable type
William Caxton invented: printing press
The first english newspaper: The Courant
Benjamin Harris: Public Occurrences, Both Foregin and Domestrick
The story taht got Harris into trouble: Indian Allies mistreat French captives
Sedicious libel: no defense, rules: sued for anything
James and Benj. Franklin invented: New England Courant
Zenger spent _ months in prision for criticizing Gov. William Cosby: 9
Alien and Sedition Act: False statements about government
Women colonial publishers: Anna Zenger, Anne Franklin, Elizabeth Timothy
Elijah Lovejoy: St. Louis Observer journalists, anit-slavery newspaper...was shot and killed
Benjamin Day: New York Sun
James Gordon Bennett: New York Harald, challenged NEw York sun
Horace greely: owned New Yorker, New york Tribune
mathew Brady: first photojouanlist
Nelly Bly: real name Elizabeth Cochran, a journalist eposed sanatarm, went around the world in 72 days
The camera is a: weapon
Peter Arnette: broadcast from hotel in Baghadad during the bombings.
Bob schieffer said: there must be at least two sources of information for the public: government and press
bob Woodruff's favorite passage: "I wish to live deliberately And not, when I come to die, Discover that I have not lived" Henry David Thoreau
First Amendment protects the: fourth estate
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have governemnt without newspaper or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter": Thomas Jefferson
"Give me the right to know to utter freely, according to consience, abover all liberties": John Milton
"I'd rather face all the armies of the world than 3 hostile newspapers: Napoleon Bonaparte
James& Benj. Franklin: NEw England Courant, fought opposition of puritans
John PEter Zenger: NEw York Weekly JOurnal
Andrew Hamilton: Refused to accept 1735 interpretation
Horace Greeley: owned New YOrk Tribune, "The Conscience of the Nation"
"To Serve No party but eh People": Joseph Pulitzer
Josephy Pulitzer: did more toward seeting the pattern of modern journalism thananyone else
The yellow kid: Richard Oucault
"You supply the pictures, I'll supply the War!": William Randolph Hearst
Dividing Newpapers: 70% advertising. 30% news
AP=: neutral objective
Edward W. Scripps: INS
UP + INS = UPI: William Randolph HEarst
United PRess was: HEarst style, human interst persona;
Internation News Service: aggrfessive, guality writing,
Associated PResss: Largest in World
TASS is now: Interfax...declining
United PRess International: once a contender, no US regional coverage today
NEws World owned by: Unification Church
Features syndicated material includeds: critiques, adivce columns, interior decorating
Major news beats of AP and UPI are: government, politics, sports
NEw York times was: Founded by Henry Raymond, Tammany Hall, purchased by Adolpoh Och
The New York TImes vs. Tammany Hall ezposed: Boss Tweed In NYC
Smalley: wrote storyies of the Sherman Marched without censorship...and then jumped a train toa void the the conseqeunces
Ernie Pyle: wrote for Time, awarded Pulitzer Prize for journalism, killed by a sniper in US forces to Okinawa
"First casualty in war is Truth": Senator Hiram JOhnson
THe nation's NEwspapers: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times
Four Freedoms of the PRess: Freedom from Censorship, Freedom: Confidentiality of Sources, Freedom of Independent Editorial Judgement, Freedom to Critize Public Officials
"News is what I decide is news": Chet Huntley, ABC News
Al Neuharth: USA TOday
Barney Kilgore: Wall Street Journal
Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Science Monitor
Christiane Amanpour: CNN/CBS
Jon Peter Zenger: New YOrk Journal
Bellie Bly: NEw YOrk World
Ida Wells: Barentt-Free Speech and Red Record
Matt Drudge: 711 to Winchell
Woodward and Bernstein: Washington Post

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