COM 107 CH 13

Question 0

Newsworthiness

Answer 0

Information most worthy of transformation into news stories

Question 1

News

Answer 1

Process of gathering information and making narrative reports that offer selected frames of reference

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Reporters judge other countries and cultures on the basis of how “they live up to or imitate American practices and values”

Question 3

Responsible Capitalism

Answer 3

Journalists sometimes naively assume that businesspeople compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but “to create increased prosperity for all”

Question 4

Small-Towm Pastoralism

Answer 4

Favoring the small over the large and the rural over the urban

Question 5

Individualism

Answer 5

It rewards the rugged tenacity needed to confront and expose corruption

Question 6

Conflict of Interest

Answer 6

Any situation in which journalists may stand to benefit personally from stories they produce

Question 7

Herd Journalism

Answer 7

Reporters stake out a house, chase celebrities in packs, or follow a story in such herds that the entire profession comes under attack for invading people’s privacy

Question 8

Sound Bite

Answer 8

The TV equivalent of a quote in print news; the part of a broadcast news report in which an expert, a celebrity, a victim or a person in the street responds to some aspect of an event or issue

Question 9

Public Journalism

Answer 9

Helping public life go well; moves from detachment to being a fair-minded participant in public life; what “going right” is like; seeing people as a public, potential actors in arriving at democratic solutions to public problems