JMS 300 - Santana Exam 1 |Questions and Answers
broccoli journalism - -the news media gives you what it thinks if GOOD for you
-mediated culture - -media reflects but also creates the culture (media reflects
society/dominating thoughts of the era)
-ambient journalism - -the news / multi-media are 'always on' or in the background.
People are constantly exposed to the millions of tiny messages. Also promotes products
while giving a sense of what it is/what is important
-telecommunications act of 1996 - -act that was bought/paid for by corporate media
lobbies (open the floodgates for mergers) BACKFIRED by dramatically reducing important
FCC regulations on cross ownership, leading to giant corporations & increasing the
monopoly on the flow of information
-echo chamber effect - -news medias repeat each other, the same (few) news items
-limited effects theory - -People choose what to watch or read based on what they already
believe, and therefore the media exerts only a small influence
-agenda setting theory - -the ability of the news media to influence the salience of topics
on the public agenda. the more coverage, the more "important" the message. the press may
not tell you what to think, but they tell you what to think about .. began with 1968 study on
a presidential election & the news
-gatekeepers - -those who decide what information goes through the channels, decides the
flow of information, they report on information based on the demographic (their audience)
-media consolidation - -the illusion of choice. owned by top 6 (at&t, walt disney company,
comcast, 21st century fox, cbs corp, viacom)
-salience - -the quality of being particularly noticeable or important (placement of text,
repetition of text, consistency of text, highlighting certain features in text, while omitting
others)
-click-bait - -online content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose
main purpose is to attract attention & draw visitors to a particular webpage (people want
to be entertained)
-commodity - -what do the people want (drives click-bait, shortform)
-public service - -what do the people need (information needed to function a society, can
save lives, longform)
, -kitchen sinking - -when people see all news as a opinionated editorial (ex: all news is
corrupt)
-criteria of news - -timeliness (current events, new, happening now)
conflict (what's the problem, negative news)
proximity (interesting, significance, impact, affinity)
human interest (people, amusement, sadness)
reporters ask (how does this affect my readers', listeners' or viewers' lives?)
-penny press - -apart of the Detachment era - 1830s (cheaper news, ethical about honest &
trust)
-detatchment - -1830s - rise of the penny press, newspapers had political leanings, new
organizations began offering more salacious material, proves that market disrupts industry
(although this was happening, newspapers knew they had the ability to be fair & honest)
-non-partisanship - -1850s - dreadscott decision divided the nation into 2 distinct political
groups, compromise of 1850, full break from a partisan press
-inverted pyramid - -1865 - important facts first, straight to the point (crucial when
informing the facts of President Lincoln's assassination)
-facticity - -1890s - FACTS ONLY nothing else, set aside editorializing/opinion writing, Ida
Wells was a key figure
-the red record - -100 page pamphlet describing lynching in US since the emancipation
proclamation & describes blacks struggling since that event (first examples of investigative
journalism)
-balance/objectivity - -1900s ~ present - stands on the heels of all history, academic study
(university of Missouri & study of journalism graduate program @ Columbia), birth of
journalism as "social responsibility" (reporters must be aware of bias & unbias)
-social responsibility theory - -press has a moral obligation to consider the overall needs
of society when making journalistic decisions in order to produce the greatest good
-hutchins commission - -formed during WWII to recruit a commission to inquire into the
proper function of the media in a modern democracy (worked in the interest of the public,
public is better off knowing the truth)
-journalistic objectivity - -unbiased and continuity when writing & reporting on
articles/topics (reporters should wear the same blindfold as lady justice)
-authoritative neutral voice - -journalists seem fair and unbiased in the foundations of
objectivity, thus making news organizations have a staid "voice of authority" in the text to
the story
broccoli journalism - -the news media gives you what it thinks if GOOD for you
-mediated culture - -media reflects but also creates the culture (media reflects
society/dominating thoughts of the era)
-ambient journalism - -the news / multi-media are 'always on' or in the background.
People are constantly exposed to the millions of tiny messages. Also promotes products
while giving a sense of what it is/what is important
-telecommunications act of 1996 - -act that was bought/paid for by corporate media
lobbies (open the floodgates for mergers) BACKFIRED by dramatically reducing important
FCC regulations on cross ownership, leading to giant corporations & increasing the
monopoly on the flow of information
-echo chamber effect - -news medias repeat each other, the same (few) news items
-limited effects theory - -People choose what to watch or read based on what they already
believe, and therefore the media exerts only a small influence
-agenda setting theory - -the ability of the news media to influence the salience of topics
on the public agenda. the more coverage, the more "important" the message. the press may
not tell you what to think, but they tell you what to think about .. began with 1968 study on
a presidential election & the news
-gatekeepers - -those who decide what information goes through the channels, decides the
flow of information, they report on information based on the demographic (their audience)
-media consolidation - -the illusion of choice. owned by top 6 (at&t, walt disney company,
comcast, 21st century fox, cbs corp, viacom)
-salience - -the quality of being particularly noticeable or important (placement of text,
repetition of text, consistency of text, highlighting certain features in text, while omitting
others)
-click-bait - -online content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose
main purpose is to attract attention & draw visitors to a particular webpage (people want
to be entertained)
-commodity - -what do the people want (drives click-bait, shortform)
-public service - -what do the people need (information needed to function a society, can
save lives, longform)
, -kitchen sinking - -when people see all news as a opinionated editorial (ex: all news is
corrupt)
-criteria of news - -timeliness (current events, new, happening now)
conflict (what's the problem, negative news)
proximity (interesting, significance, impact, affinity)
human interest (people, amusement, sadness)
reporters ask (how does this affect my readers', listeners' or viewers' lives?)
-penny press - -apart of the Detachment era - 1830s (cheaper news, ethical about honest &
trust)
-detatchment - -1830s - rise of the penny press, newspapers had political leanings, new
organizations began offering more salacious material, proves that market disrupts industry
(although this was happening, newspapers knew they had the ability to be fair & honest)
-non-partisanship - -1850s - dreadscott decision divided the nation into 2 distinct political
groups, compromise of 1850, full break from a partisan press
-inverted pyramid - -1865 - important facts first, straight to the point (crucial when
informing the facts of President Lincoln's assassination)
-facticity - -1890s - FACTS ONLY nothing else, set aside editorializing/opinion writing, Ida
Wells was a key figure
-the red record - -100 page pamphlet describing lynching in US since the emancipation
proclamation & describes blacks struggling since that event (first examples of investigative
journalism)
-balance/objectivity - -1900s ~ present - stands on the heels of all history, academic study
(university of Missouri & study of journalism graduate program @ Columbia), birth of
journalism as "social responsibility" (reporters must be aware of bias & unbias)
-social responsibility theory - -press has a moral obligation to consider the overall needs
of society when making journalistic decisions in order to produce the greatest good
-hutchins commission - -formed during WWII to recruit a commission to inquire into the
proper function of the media in a modern democracy (worked in the interest of the public,
public is better off knowing the truth)
-journalistic objectivity - -unbiased and continuity when writing & reporting on
articles/topics (reporters should wear the same blindfold as lady justice)
-authoritative neutral voice - -journalists seem fair and unbiased in the foundations of
objectivity, thus making news organizations have a staid "voice of authority" in the text to
the story
