MAS 101 EXAM 3 ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Newsholes - CORRECT ANSWER - space not taken up by ads in a newspaper
News Desert - CORRECT ANSWER - country/area without a local newspaper
Citizen Journalisim - CORRECT ANSWER - - Activist amateurs: internet and blogs
- many news organizations attempt to use citizen journalisim to make up for the lost journalist
due to downsizing
- crystalized in South Korea by Oh Yeon-ho because he believed that the press was not doing
well enough. Claimed that every citizen is a reporter
Blogs - CORRECT ANSWER - online journals where people and companies post their
thoughts and other content, usually related to narrowly defined topics. rose to popularity in the
90s.
Zenger Trial (1735) - CORRECT ANSWER - Owner of New-York Weekly Journal
(1733), John Zenger, arrested for seditious libel and defended by Alexander Hamilton.
- trial debated the right of the press to criticize public officals (prefiguring the first amendment)
- Jury ruled in his favor as long as the stories were TRUE
Partisan Press - CORRECT ANSWER - newspapers were funded by printing contracts
which were often given by political office holders
Penny Press (1830s) - CORRECT ANSWER - -made possible by technological
innovation. sold by newsboys at 1/6th of the price. local news and crime reporting, seperating
news and editorial. neutral toward advertisers. -Newyork Sun (1833): favored humna interest
stories. -New York Morning Herald (1835): independent paper for middle and working class
readers
, Associated Press - CORRECT ANSWER - -first wire service (1846)
-news organization that provided news to newspapers for a fee originally by telegraph
- originally a Pony express built by the big NYC Newspapers to recieve news from the Mexican
War.
-soon utilized the telegraph to send news nationally
The New York Times (1896) - CORRECT ANSWER - -objectivity in modern journalism
- Partisan model (1700s-1890s)
- Objective model (1890s-present)
- Distanced itself from yellow journalism. focused on documenting major events (inverted
pyramid style)
- more affluent readership. lowered the price to a penny to attract middle class readers.
inverted pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER - -who, what, where, when (and sometimes why
or how)
-developed because newspapers wanted to be sure to get the most important facts first in case
telegraph connection was lost.
1. most important
2. less important
3. nice to know
John Dewey vs Walter Lippman - CORRECT ANSWER - -by the 50's, objectivity is
widely accepted, but many political columnist and interpretive journalist (Lippman). Insisted that
journalist needed to HELP the public understand the world.
-Other's disagreed with this stance(Dewey)
- McCarthyism utlimately tipped the scales toward interpretive journalism. Vietnam, the
Pentagon Papers, and Watergate solidified the power of the press
Yellow Journalisim - CORRECT ANSWER - - used sensationalism to sell the news
- provided the roots for investigativfe journalism.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Newsholes - CORRECT ANSWER - space not taken up by ads in a newspaper
News Desert - CORRECT ANSWER - country/area without a local newspaper
Citizen Journalisim - CORRECT ANSWER - - Activist amateurs: internet and blogs
- many news organizations attempt to use citizen journalisim to make up for the lost journalist
due to downsizing
- crystalized in South Korea by Oh Yeon-ho because he believed that the press was not doing
well enough. Claimed that every citizen is a reporter
Blogs - CORRECT ANSWER - online journals where people and companies post their
thoughts and other content, usually related to narrowly defined topics. rose to popularity in the
90s.
Zenger Trial (1735) - CORRECT ANSWER - Owner of New-York Weekly Journal
(1733), John Zenger, arrested for seditious libel and defended by Alexander Hamilton.
- trial debated the right of the press to criticize public officals (prefiguring the first amendment)
- Jury ruled in his favor as long as the stories were TRUE
Partisan Press - CORRECT ANSWER - newspapers were funded by printing contracts
which were often given by political office holders
Penny Press (1830s) - CORRECT ANSWER - -made possible by technological
innovation. sold by newsboys at 1/6th of the price. local news and crime reporting, seperating
news and editorial. neutral toward advertisers. -Newyork Sun (1833): favored humna interest
stories. -New York Morning Herald (1835): independent paper for middle and working class
readers
, Associated Press - CORRECT ANSWER - -first wire service (1846)
-news organization that provided news to newspapers for a fee originally by telegraph
- originally a Pony express built by the big NYC Newspapers to recieve news from the Mexican
War.
-soon utilized the telegraph to send news nationally
The New York Times (1896) - CORRECT ANSWER - -objectivity in modern journalism
- Partisan model (1700s-1890s)
- Objective model (1890s-present)
- Distanced itself from yellow journalism. focused on documenting major events (inverted
pyramid style)
- more affluent readership. lowered the price to a penny to attract middle class readers.
inverted pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER - -who, what, where, when (and sometimes why
or how)
-developed because newspapers wanted to be sure to get the most important facts first in case
telegraph connection was lost.
1. most important
2. less important
3. nice to know
John Dewey vs Walter Lippman - CORRECT ANSWER - -by the 50's, objectivity is
widely accepted, but many political columnist and interpretive journalist (Lippman). Insisted that
journalist needed to HELP the public understand the world.
-Other's disagreed with this stance(Dewey)
- McCarthyism utlimately tipped the scales toward interpretive journalism. Vietnam, the
Pentagon Papers, and Watergate solidified the power of the press
Yellow Journalisim - CORRECT ANSWER - - used sensationalism to sell the news
- provided the roots for investigativfe journalism.
