Deck 10: News

Question 1

When did the partisan period of American newspapers begin?

A) During the Depression
B) Before American Independence
C) After the American Revolution
D) Between the two world wars
E) In the 1960s

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In the text,news is defined as

A) a report on conventional issues.
B) unbiased reporting.
C) honest and fair coverage.
D) a report on change.
E) a report on social issues.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which is not a social and economic factor that made the penny press possible?

A) Printing presses
B) Literacy
C) Immigration
D) Urbanization
E) Industrialization

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which term refers to a convention in newspaper writing in which the most important information is presented first?

A) Primary reporting
B) News hole
C) Traditional pyramid
D) Inverted pyramid
E) Yellow journalism

Question 5

What is the professional canon of journalistic fairness?

A) Present competing points of view
B) Present the truth
C) Present the most popular point of view
D) Present the least controversial point of view
E) Get reliable sources

Question 6

Which term refers to telling news without bias?

A) Traditional reporting
B) Two-side reporting
C) Honest reporting
D) Subjective reporting
E) Objective reporting

Question 7

Which was the first newspaper in Canada?

A) The Halifax Gazette
B) The Globe and Mail
C) Publick Occurrences
D) Toronto Star
E) The Gazette (Montreal)

Question 8

Which was the first newspaper?

A) Boston Sun
B) The Globe and Mail
C) The New York Times
D) Publick Occurrences
E) Toronto Sun

Question 9

What marked the yellow period of newspaper journalism?

A) Sensationalism
B) Reliability
C) Professionalism
D) Fairness
E) Balance

Question 10

Which is not a newspaper tradition from the partisan period that remains today?

A) Government keeps its hands off the press.
B) News media are a forum for debate.
C) News media comment on public issues.
D) Journalists are professionally trained.
E) Government transgressions against the news media are met by public rejection.

Question 11

Which is not a newspaper tradition from the penny press period that remains today?

A) Inverted pyramid story structures
B) General audience appeal
C) Orientation to covering events
D) Commitment to social improvement
E) Greater government control

Question 12

According to Jules Boykoff,balanced coverage has not translated into

A) honest coverage.
B) fair coverage.
C) accurate coverage.
D) full coverage.
E) real coverage.

Question 13

Which was the first period of American journalism?

A) Colonial period
B) Partisan period
C) Penny press period
D) Yellow period
E) Pilgrim period

Question 14

According to Peter Desbarats,journalism in Canada has been

A) closer to Main Street USA.
B) closer to Fleet Street.
C) fair and balanced.
D) very profitable.
E) government controlled.

Question 15

Which was the first newspaper that sold for a penny and was a paper for the masses?

A) Toronto Sun
B) The New York Sun
C) Publick Occurrences
D) The Globe and Mail
E) The Halifax Gazette

Question 16

How many issues of Benjamin Harris's newspaper,Publick Occurrences,were published?

A) None
B) Six
C) Twenty-five
D) Fifty
E) One

Question 17

Which was the initial issue of the partisan period?

A) World War II
B) World War I
C) The Depression
D) American independence
E) The Constitution

Question 18

Which is not a newspaper tradition from the colonial period that remains today?

A) Independence from government censorship
B) Ability to react in its own self-interest
C) Commitment to seeking truth
D) Active attempt to mould government policy
E) Professional training for journalists

Question 19

Who urged truth as a defence for charges of libel?

A) John Peter Zenger
B) Andrew Hamilton
C) Benjamin Harris
D) John Adams
E) Thomas Jefferson

Question 20

According to Wilfred Kesterton,which is not a period of Canadian journalism?

A) Yellow period
B) Transplant period
C) Third Canadian Press period
D) Growth period
E) Fourth Canadian Press period

Question 21

What determines the total number of pages in a newspaper?

A) Size of the audience
B) Advertising
C) News
D) Sports
E) International news

Question 22

David Rooney believes that it is inevitable that journalists are

A) unbiased.
B) biased.
C) objective.
D) partisan.
E) professional.

Question 23

According to the Boykoffs,balanced reporting has not translated into accurate coverage.

Question 24

The partisan period was the first period of American journalism.

Question 25

Which event created an enthusiasm for investigative reporting?

A) Watergate
B) 9/11
C) The 2004 presidential election
D) The Sponsorship Scandal
E) The Vietnam War

Question 26

Which term refers to the ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages?

A) Objectivity
B) Newsworthiness
C) Reportability
D) Formal ranking
E) Editorial bias

Question 27

Which term refers to the day-to-day variation in newsworthy events?

A) News hole
B) Flow
C) News volume
D) Variation
E) Objectivity

Question 28

Which is an example of a soft news publication?

A) Toronto Star
B) The New York Times
C) People Magazine
D) The Gazette (Montreal)
E) The Globe and Mail

Question 29

Which term is used to describe a person who decides whether to shorten,drop,or change a story en route to the mass audience?

A) News editor
B) Gatekeeper
C) Journalist
D) Proofreader
E) Copy editor

Question 30

The first American newspaper was The New York Sun.

Question 31

Which term was used during the Iraq War to describe reporters who accompany U.S.military combat units?

A) Rice-roots reporters
B) Embeds
C) Sand journalists
D) Pool system
E) Non-combatants

Question 32

One tradition from the colonial period of journalism is that the news media is independent from government censorship and control.

Question 33

Which is not a current newspaper trend?

A) Less comprehensive coverage
B) Less enterprise
C) Fewer stories
D) Fewer beats
E) Less independent reporting

Question 34

What is most important to bloggers?

A) How
B) Why
C) What
D) Who
E) Hits

Question 35

Who was Canada's first journalist killed in Afghanistan?

A) Tony Burman
B) David Gollob
C) Michelle Lang
D) Robert G. Hurst
E) Barbara Goldman

Question 36

Which is not one of the primary values that Herbert Gans observed in North American journalists?

A) Urban focus
B) Ethnocentrism
C) Commitment to democracy and capitalism
D) Moderate individualism
E) Social order

Question 37

How many reporters were killed doing their work in 2004?

A) 54
B) 26
C) 16
D) 32
E) 11

Question 38

Which term is used to describe news geared to satisfying an audience's information wants,not needs?

A) Hard news
B) Biased news
C) Objective news
D) Emotional news
E) Soft news

Question 39

Benjamin Harris's newspaper Public Occurrences published only one issue.

Question 40

Which term is used to describe the space reserved for news in newspapers and on television?

A) News hole
B) Front page
C) Headliner
D) Byline
E) Flow

Question 41

Peter Desbarats believes that Canadian journalism traditions are identical to American traditions.

Question 42

The first period of Canadian journalism was characterized by British or American newspapers that were transplanted in Canada.

Question 43

Telling news that is widely recognized to be true is also called objective reporting.

Question 44

The partisan period of journalism occurred between the two world wars.

Question 45

A tradition from the partisan period of journalism that continues today is that the news media should comment vigorously on public issues.

Question 46

According to David Rooney,bias in journalism is inevitable.

Question 47

Industrialization led to the growth period for newspapers in Canada.

Question 48

The inverted pyramid refers to a writing style in which the most important information is presented first.

Question 49

Journalists use the term newsworthiness to rank change.

Question 50

It has always been understood that news media content should be objective.

Question 51

News delivered by telegraph was called thunder news.

Question 52

One social factor that made the penny press possible was increasing literacy.

Question 53

When it was first published,The New York Sun cost one penny.

Question 54

The first issue of the partisan period of American journalism was the First World War.

Question 55

The yellow period of journalism was characterized by serious reporting and strict objectivity.

Question 56

Describing objectivity as a value-free process is self-contradictory.

Question 57

News as we think of it today has roots in the penny press period.

Question 58

Herbert Gans concluded that journalists have radical values.

Question 59

When news practices became institutionalized,the notion of neutral presentation was firmly ensconced.

Question 60

Canada's first newspaper was The Halifax Gazette.

Question 61

? The first period in American journalism was called the __________________.

Question 62

According to the Boykoffs,balanced coverage has not translated into __________________.

Question 63

The gatekeeping process affects all news.

Question 64

A news story that is worth covering will always be printed in a newspaper.

Question 65

A reporter who emphasizes one aspect of a story and neglects others is acting as a gatekeeper.

Question 66

Ethnocentrism means that journalists can see all sides of a cultural issue.

Question 67

How a news organization perceives its audience affects news coverage.

Question 68

The ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages is called __________________.

Question 69

Newspaper circulation has been slipping.

Question 70

Newsrooms are presenting less comprehensive coverage.

Question 71

The volume of advertising determines the total number of pages of a newspaper.

Question 72

__________________ was the first newspaper for the masses.

Question 73

The initial issue of the partisan period was the __________________.

Question 74

The first co-operative for gathering and distributing news was the __________________.

Question 75

The Iraq war was the first time that reporters were embedded with U.S.military combat units.

Question 76

__________________ was the first published newspaper.

Question 77

Herbert Gans concluded that journalists have __________________ values.

Question 78

A news hole refers to all the rest of a newspaper that is devoted to advertising.

Question 79

News delivered by telegraph was called __________________.

Question 80

__________________ is a concept in journalism that news should be gathered and told value-free.