MMC 2000 Exam 2 (FSU) questions with answers graded A+

MMC 2000 Exam 2 (FSU)Newspapers are not.... - correct answer Dead Rome has a newspaper in ______ time - correct answer Caesar's The Acta Diruna (actions of the day) - correct answer the Roman newspaper in Caesar's time; circulation was one because no way of knowing how many read the tablet The newspapers we recognize today have their roots in the __th century Europe - correct answer 17th Corantos - correct answer 17th Century Europe; one page new sheets printed in English in Holland in 1620; imported to England by British booksellers Diurnals - correct answer true forerunners of our daily newspapers The word newspaper entered the English Language by - correct answer The 1660s Broadsides/Broadsheets - correct answer Single sheet announcements or accounts of events imported from England The broadsheets were the early forerunner of newspapers in _______ _______ - correct answer Colonial America Benjamin Harris 1690 - correct answer Printed his own broadside, Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick. -One day stint; he was critical of local and European dignitaries, and had failed to obtain a license John Campbell's Boston News Letter 1704 - correct answer -Survived the revolution -Featured foreign news, reprints of articles from England, government announcements and shipping news -Dull and expensive -Established the newspaper in the colonies -Survived in part bc of government subsidies With government support came - correct answer government control Benjamin Franklin - correct answer -Established a print shop in Philadelphia -In 1729 took over a failing newspaper; Pennsylvania Gazette -Could run the Gazette w/ significant independence -Unafraid to criticize those in authority -Began to develop ad support, helped shield his newspaper from gov't control -Demonstrated that financial independence could lead to editorial independence Trial of John Peter Zenger (attorney Andrew Hamilton) - correct answer Became a symbol of colonial newspaper independence from the Crown After the Revolution US determined just how free a press it was willing to tolerate in the - correct answer Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments to the constitution) Alien and Sedition Acts - correct answer Made illegal writing, publishing or printing "any false scandalous and malicious writing about the president" At the turn of the 19th century, New York provided - correct answer All the ingredients necessary for a new kind of newspaper and new kind of journalism Penny Papers (penny press) - correct answer One cent newspapers for everyone ;medium most associated with newspapers becoming advertising driven The New York Sun (Benjamin Day) - correct answer -First of the penny papers (Sept. 3, 1833)