Exam 3 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Who were possibly the first
professional editors, transcribing
texts and determining what
information was kept or left out,
according to the textbook?
Scribes
What was the first recorded
method of mechanically
producing multiple books at a
time from the same text, recorded
as early as the third century?
Wood Block Printing - China
What classification of books has
the highest rate of sales and
includes works such as adult
fiction and nonfiction, YA fiction
and nonfiction, and graphic
novels?
Trade Books
What is the primary motivation
described in the lecture for book
censorship and bannings?
To keep information about other beliefs and cultures from other people’s hands
In half of U. S. states, which bodies
or groups determine which
textbooks are okay to use in
public school classrooms?
Local school districts
The word “magazine” comes from
a French word meaning
“warehouse.” What were the
original magazines warehouses
for?
Newspaper Articles
What type of magazine emerged
in the 1800s, as represented by
The Saturday Evening Post?
General Interest magazines
What name was given to
magazines that highlighted
corruption and shoddy products
like patent medicines, while
urging for social change?
Muckraking
The tabloid Enquirer was known
for “catch and kill.” What does this
describe?
Buy rights to a story, and refuse to publish it
What was the New England
Courant newspaper, published by
James Franklin in 1721, known for
introducing?
General Interest stories
What was the name of cheaply-
produced papers during the
Industrial Revolution that often
fabricated stories, such as the
New York Sun’s series on “man-
bats” living on the moon?
Penny Press
What kinds of newspapers
specialized in promoting specific
points of view from one political
party?
Partisan Press
Which era of news was
highlighted by the often-
underhanded competition
between William Randolph
Hearst’s New York Journal and
Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World?
Yellow Journalism
What type of journalism was
championed by editor Walter
Lippman, who outlined three
important press responsibilities?
Interpretive Journalism
From the 1970s to 2000s, which
medium did most people say was
the most trustworthy for news?
Tv news
Which of these emerged as a
result of cable news networks and
talking heads?
Journalism of assertion
According to “The Elements of
Journalism” (2007) by Bill Kovach
and Tom Rosenstiel , a journalist’s
first obligation should be to
_______ and its first loyalty to
______.
Truth; citizens
Which type of fake news is
characterized by media outlets
who seek to influence news and
public agenda with false stories
and information ?
Opinion entrepreneurs
State-sponsored actors who
spread partisan messages, such
as operations in Russia, China,
and North Korea, are what kind of
fake news?
Propagandist
Satirists
-Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show
-SNL’s Weekend Update
Hoaxes and Hucksters
-P.T. Barnum
-Internet phishing
Opinion Entrepreneurs
-Alex Jones’s InfoWars
-Breibart.com
Propagandists
-China’s Great Firewall
-Russian Bot Farms
Information Anarchists
-QAnon
-Pizzagate
