Media and Society
Terms
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copy deck
- copyright
- protection of intellectual property
- 3 types of libel
- falsity, fault, damaging
- 2 faults
- negligence, actual malice
- 4 models of gov't
- authoritarian, communist, libertarian, and social responsibility
- 3 libel defenses
- truthfulness, fair comment, qualified privilege
- John Milton's Aeropagetica
- market place of idea theory: public decides what is true and false
- shield laws
- protects journalists when gov't attempts to disclose information
- Tele. Act of 1934 Section 3.15
- broadcasters provide equal airtime to opposing politicians
- 1968 Rating System
- G, PG, R, X
- doublespeak
- using language to confuse
- camera obscura
- dark chamber of the camera
- Niepce and Daguerre
- developers of the photogrpahic process similar to the polaroid
- William Henry Foxtalbut
- developed the negative process to make multiple prints
- Louis Hynde, Jacob Riis
- social reform photographers
- Leelam Stanford
- first stop action photographer
- Alfred Steeplets
- took photogrpahy as an art form
- Matt Brody, Roger Fenton
- famous war photographers
- George Eastman
- Kodak founder, brought photography to the public
- Ed Land
- developed a glare-free lens and the polaroid system
- obscenity
- illegal material (California v. Miller)
- 1st newspaper, how long?
- Publick Occurrences, one issue
- 2nd newspaper, how long?
- Boston Newsletter, lasted several years
- yellow journalism, sensationalism
- Pultizer and Hearst fought for the "Yellow Kid" comics
- Most newspapers get their income from ...?
- advertising
- Journalists most valuable quality ...?
- credibility
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(Ethics)
categorical imperative - rules based
- Mill's utilitarianism
- requires to do the most good for the most people
- Aristotle's golden mean
- sseek the middle ground in a philosophical dilemma
- Agape
- responding for the love of others
- inverted pyramid story structure
- places most important information on top
- SPJ's 4 ethcial points
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seek truth
minimize harm
act independently
be accountable - Murrow & McCarthy on "See It Now"
- exposed McCarthy of communist-baiting tactics
- muckrakers
- early investigative journalists, named by Roosevelt
- Halloween 1938, Orson Welles show
- War of the Worlds
- inventor of the TV
- Philo Farnsworth
- Edward Bernays
- used Freudian psycology in the PR field
- sumbliminal adverstising
- hidden messages in ads
- gov't deregualtion causes ...?
- company mergers
- media convergence
- the use of modern technology to access traditional forms of media
- pseudo event
- an event created to attract media attention
- cultural imperialism
- when one culture controls another
- ombudsmen, reader representatives
- newspaper staff that act in the best interest of the reader
- wire servies (i.e. Associated Press)
- provides news to papers for a subscription fee
- Nelly Bly
- investigative journalist, she placed herself inside an insane asylum for a story
- precision journalism
- data collection and data analysis
- USA Today
- only recently became profitable
- gatekeepers
- staff members that control the flow of information
- selective exposure
- what the audience does when choosing one media over another
- joint operating agreements (JOA)
- when newspapers share expenses in order to save money
- Sequoia
- "Cherokee Phoenix" created the Cherokee alphabet
- Janet Cooke
- Washington Post writer, fictionalized a heroin addict in her story, had to return her Pulitzer
- torches of freedom
- Bernay's idea of cigarettes for women
- Radio Act of 1912
- all ships need working radios (result of Titanic)
- Upton Sinclair
- wrote about Chicago stockyards in "The Jungle"
- Ivy Lee
- believed in honesty, worked with Rockafeller