TPL - Professionalism (Assessment)

Question 1

For Susan Barrington, professionalism is simply synonymous with the pursuit of ______.

Answer 1

Power

Question 2

Susan Barrington’s definition of professionalism is an obvious product of naked self _______.

Answer 2

Interest

Question 3

James Penfield, on the other hand, has reduced professionalism to mere _______.

As he defines it, the term refers to the skills involved in ‘ending a broadcast on the dot, having everything run smoothly, selecting a running order that makes sense, knowing instinctively what you can and cannot do’.

Answer 3

Technique

Question 4

All but the least experienced of Penfield’s colleagues seem to suffer from the same affliction.

The Editor-in-Chief, for example, fails to communicate any sense of mission and uses daily staff meetings to expound tediously on the proper usage of the word ‘finally’ or to insist on an even-handed policy of news reporting that guarantees _______.

Answer 4

Blandness

Question 5

As defined and practised by ______ Barrington, James Penfield and the BBC, professionalism clearly has none of the resonance, dignity or moral force that it acquired during the Falklands War through association with the efforts made by the armed forces in the defence of the realm.

Answer 5

Susan

Question 6

Like other terms in Thatcher’s language of national regeneration, it is exposed by the film’s close scrutiny as nothing more than a typically ugly product of the selfish individualism and moral vacancy that lies at the root of neoconservative ________.

Answer 6

Ideology

Question 7

Who does James Penfield work for?

Answer 7

BBC

Question 8

Where in Britain is Ann Barrington’s house?

Answer 8

Norfolk

Question 9

What is a ‘Ploughman’s Lunch’?

Answer 9

A ‘traditional’ type of pub food

Question 10

James Penfield works in..?

Answer 10

Radio