Deck 6: Newspapers and the News: Reflection of a Democratic Society

Question 1

The journalistic value of ______ represents the suspicion journalists often have of extremists on either side of an issue.

A)individualism
B)moderatism
C)social order
D)leadership

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What phrase was used for a lively,illustrated brand of news reporting of the 1920s?

A)yellow journalism
B)jazz journalism
C)photojournalism
D)tabloid journalism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The goal of journalistic objectivity began with which of the following?

A)jazz journalism
B)yellow journalism
C)tabloid papers
D)the penny press

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The first English-language papers were published in Amsterdam starting in which of the following years?

A)1618
B)1690
C)1708
D)1776

Question 5

Which paper was published by Benjamin Franklin?

A)Publick Occurrences
B)the Pennsylvania Gazette
C)the Boston News-Letter
D)the New York Sun

Question 6

Edward R.Murrow is best remembered for which of the following?

A)his reporting during the Vietnam War
B)being the first radio disc jockey
C)his accounts from London in World War II
D)reporting entertainment news from Hollywood

Question 7

The journalistic value of ______ represents the idea open competition among businesses will create a better and more prosperous world.

A)altruistic democracy
B)small-town pastoralism
C)responsible capitalism
D)social order

Question 8

Which paper is regarded as the first newspaper in the North American colonies?

A)Publick Occurrences
B)the Pennsylvania Gazette
C)the Boston News-Letter
D)the New York Sun

Question 9

The journalistic value of ______ represents the idea that your own country and culture are better than all others.

A)ethnocentrism
B)altruistic democracy
C)responsible capitalism
D)small-town pastoralism

Question 10

When reporters focus on the importance of the president or prime minister,they are representing the journalistic value of ______.

A)altruistic democracy
B)responsible capitalism
C)social order
D)leadership

Question 11

Which of the following was the newspaper responsible for breaking the Watergate story in 1972?

A)the New York Times
B)USA Today
C)the Washington Post
D)the Los Angeles Times

Question 12

When reporters focus on the return to normal in a story about a natural disaster,they are talking about the journalistic value of ______.

A)social order
B)individualism
C)moderatism
D)leadership

Question 13

In 2017,approximately ______ journalists died covering the news around the world.

A)25
B)46
C)73
D)127

Question 14

Which of the following events helped bring CNN to prominence?

A)the Watergate hearings
B)the Apollo Moon landing
C)the funerals of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
D)the Persian Gulf War

Question 15

Most of the initial news coverage of the Flint,Michigan,contaminated water crisis came primarily from ______.

A)state and local news sources
B)national news sources
C)Occupy Flint activists
D)press releases from the Michigan governor's office

Question 16

Which paper is regarded as the first of the penny papers?

A)Publick Occurrences
B)the Pennsylvania Gazette
C)the Boston News-Letter
D)the New York Sun

Question 17

Most American newspapers are owned by which of the following?

A)private individuals
B)small family-owned groups
C)large corporate chains
D)German publishing giant Bertelsmann

Question 18

The journalistic value of ______ represents a nostalgia for the old-fashioned rural community.

A)ethnocentrism
B)altruistic democracy
C)moderatism
D)small-town pastoralism

Question 19

The journalistic value of ______ represents the idea politicians should serve the public good and not their own interests.

A)ethnocentrism
B)altruistic democracy
C)responsible capitalism
D)moderatism

Question 20

The journalistic value of ______ represents the fact that journalists love to use a single person as a symbol of a larger issue.

A)ethnocentrism
B)small-town pastoralism
C)individualism
D)social order

Question 21

Arthur Sulzberger,former publisher of the New York Times,has said which of the following?

A)The Times is in the business of selling news and advertising space.
B)The Times is in the business of selling newspapers.
C)The Times will be selling newspapers 100 years from now.
D)He always expects to be in the business of "putting black ink on white paper."

Question 22

Reporter Nellie Bly's style of reporting from the yellow journalism era would best fit in today at which of the following newspapers?

A)the New York Times
B)the New York Post
C)the Chicago Tribune
D)the Wall Street Journal

Question 23

The New York Times gets most of its readership from ______.

A)print subscribers in the New York City area
B)online readers,many of whom are using mobile devices
C)online readers,primarily using desktop computers
D)print subscribers outside of the New York City area

Question 24

Which one of the following newspapers most clearly defines what will be news in the United States?

A)the New York Times
B)USA Today
C)the Los Angeles Times
D)the Washington Post

Question 25

Alternative weekly papers are having ______ circulation.

A)growing
B)steady
C)declining

Question 26

According to Professor Jay Rosen,when journalists adopt a neutral style of reporting that gives equal emphasis to two sides of an issue when one side is objectively false,this is known as ______.

A)balanced reporting
B)fake news
C)the view from nowhere
D)mainstream reporting

Question 27

USA Today runs a photo and story about singer and celebrity Lady Gaga on the front page of its Life section.This is an example of the ______ news value.

A)timeliness
B)proximity
C)consequence
D)human interest

Question 28

Joseph Pulitzer wanted his paper,the New York World,to appeal to women for which of the following reasons?

A)More women were literate than men.
B)Women had more time to read the paper than men.
C)Advertisers wanted to reach women.
D)You can't fool me;Pulitzer didn't care about women readers.

Question 29

Which of the following is generally true about tabloid newspapers?

A)They are printed on a half-page format.
B)They are written in a livelier style than broadsheet newspapers.
C)They have covers rather than front pages.
D)all of these

Question 30

In recent years,war photographers have been killed ____.

A)by terrorists who beheaded them
B)by accidents while covering live fire exercises
C)while covering combat
D)all of these

Question 31

As of 2017,which newspaper had the largest circulation in the United States?

A)the New York Times
B)USA Today
C)the Los Angeles Times
D)the Wall Street Journal

Question 32

The biggest number of newspapers in the United States would be considered ______.

A)national newspapers
B)metropolitan newspapers
C)state newspapers
D)local newspapers

Question 33

The stories about contaminated water in Flint,Michigan included reports of ______.

A)lead contamination in the water
B)E.coli bacterial contamination in the water
C)high levels of chlorides in the water
D)all of these

Question 34

Colonial newspapers could be characterized by which of the following?

A)objective reporting
B)sensationalistic crime news
C)intensely partisan opinion writing
D)in-depth investigative reporting

Question 35

Frederick Douglass was the editor of which of the following?

A)the German-language newspaper New Yorker Staats-Zeitung
B)USA Today
C)the Los Angeles Tribune
D)the African American newspaper North Star

Question 36

The only comic strip to be published in the New York Times in 2017 was ______.

A)the long-running political comic strip Doonesbury
B)an original series telling the story of a Syrian refugee family arriving in New York in 2016
C)a satirical strip talking about hipsters who live in Brooklyn and eat avocado toast
D)you can't fool me.The New York Times hasn't run a comic strip since the Yellow Kid in the late 1800s

Question 37

In Lincoln,Nebraska,Lincoln Star Journal newspaper ran a large photo of a University of Nebraska volleyball tournament in today's paper.The Denver Post did not.This is an example of the ______ news value.

A)timeliness
B)proximity
C)consequence
D)human interest

Question 38

The New York Times runs a photo and story about American and Russian pilots conducting air raids in Syria.This is an example of the ______ news value.

A)prominence
B)proximity
C)consequence
D)human interest

Question 39

The Washington Post runs a photo and story about a baby panda born at the National Zoo in Washington,D.C.yesterday.This is an example of the ______ news value.

A)proximity
B)rarity
C)human interest
D)all of these

Question 40

The change to objective reporting that took place in the 1800s was driven by which of the following reasons?

A)a moral commitment to the truth
B)the rise of a literate working class
C)criticism by government officials
D)the growth of journalism schools

Question 41

Politically liberal and conservative people in the United States tend to get their news from the same sources.

Question 42

People who value and use local news media are more likely to vote in local elections.

Question 43

Until the 1960s,newscasts offered by the networks were only 15 min long.

Question 44

Spanish-language papers such as El Nuevo Herald typically just translate stories from English into Spanish.

Question 45

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize for best editorial writing went to the rural Iowa Storm Lake Times for a series of editorials about fertilizer runoff water pollution.

Question 46

Community papers are failing at a record pace.

Question 47

In 2016,overall daily newspaper circulation dropped by 8%.

Question 48

Community newspapers are dying while large metropolitan newspapers are thriving.

Question 49

Gannet runs the largest newspaper chain in the United States.

Question 50

In 2016,the New York Times,Wall Street Journal,and Washington Post all suffered a 20% decline in digital/print circulation.

Question 51

Herbert Gans,in his study "Deciding What's News," found that the media was profoundly biased in favor of big business and the evidence of this could be found in most news stories.

Question 52

Gay newspapers suffered circulation and advertising losses in the late 2000s because gay culture was becoming more mainstream.

Question 53

The Chicago Defender has always tried to be both an activist paper and a profitable paper.

Question 54

According to the Pew Research Center,less than 50% of American adults get news regularly from television.

Question 55

Journalists working in Iraq,Syria,and Afghanistan have a significant risk of being murdered for trying to report on what is happening in these war zones.

Question 56

The penny papers were successful because of their coverage of foreign affairs,national politics,and the economy.

Question 57

Because of their strong online presence,both the New York Times and the Washington Post can be considered national newspapers.

Question 58

Fox News,CNN,and MSNBC cable news channels are all generally on the list of Top 10 most viewed cable channels.

Question 59

Community newspapers remain important today because they provide information that people can't get anywhere else.

Question 60

New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer competed for readers using sensational stunts.

Question 61

Who was the Yellow Kid?

Question 62

In a brief essay,explain what Jay Rosen's concept of "the view from nowhere" is and why reporters oftentimes use it to report the news.

Question 63

Name three of the major six news values.

Question 64

Newspapers are in the process of moving from being products to being brands.

Question 65

Other than language,how do the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald differ from each other?

Question 66

In a brief essay,discuss what motivates journalists to risk their lives reporting from dangerous areas such as Syria and Afghanistan.

Question 67

What newspaper was known as the "gray lady?"

Question 68

In a brief essay,discuss how "Secret 3--Everything from the margin moves to the center" partially explains the decline of gay media.

Question 69

When and why did ABC start their late-night news program Nightline?

Question 70

What national newspaper suspended its paper edition and became a Web-only publication?

Question 71

In 2017,the Disney Corporation entered into a battle with the Los Angeles Times over the Times' coverage of the company's business relationships with the city of Anaheim,California.In a brief essay,explain how Disney attempted to retaliate against the LA Times and how the conflict was eventually resolved.

Question 72

What kind of newspaper publishes on paper sized 17 × 22 inches?

Question 73

In a brief essay,explain why the New York Times coverage (or lack of coverage)of the Flint,Michigan,water crisis was controversial.

Question 74

What does the "separation of church and state" mean in the journalism business?

Question 75

Why is it difficult to compare the circulation of USA Today to other major newspapers?

Question 76

What newspaper has the United States' leading conservative editorial page?

Question 77

Describe the significance of the New York Sun and the penny press and how they changed newspapers.

Question 78

Most of the audience for online news is made up of young people who don't read newspapers or watch television news programs.