High School Journalism: Investigating the Truth - all quiz answers for first 5 units
The Associated Press sued ___________ for copyright infringement and won.
All Headline News
The First Amendment guarantees which of the following freedoms?
All of the above
What freedom did bloggers, like Matt Drudge, have that the newspapers did not?
All of the above
Which question should you ask yourself about your audience?
All of the above
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge won a libel case against which paper?
Boston Herald
Photo-documentarian journalism
Both a and c
How did magazines become successful amidst the era of TV journalism?
By focusing on only specific markets
Annie Laurie helped bring the story of the devastating
Galveston flood.
The movable type printing press was invented by
Gutenberg.
What was the significance of FDR's fireside chats?
It bridged the gap between Washington, D.C., and everyday Americans.
The man responsible for putting together the Bill of Rights was
James Madison.
Which performer was a part of the Super Bowl indecency scandal in 2004?
Janet Jackson
Floyd Gibbons's account of the sinking of this ship helped put pressure on the U.S. to enter World War I.
Laconia
Which of the following is a restriction to free speech?
Libel and slander
Brian Williams worked for
NBC.
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 changed radio news by creating what?
National Public Radio
Jayson Blair worked for the
New York Times.
The most popular satellite radio company is
SiriusXM.
More than 75 percent of U.S. Internet bandwidth is used for what activity?
Streaming video
The Bill of Rights became a part of the Constitution in
1791.
What was the decade of television?
1950s
In the UCSD study in 2008, U.S. households consumed how many zettabytes of data?
3.6
. Instagram has more than __________________ users.
50 millon
According to The Atlantic, how many images are taken and posted online each day?
500 million
In 2014, advertisers spent ____________ on ads on journalistic platforms (newspapers, magazines, TV news, etc.)
60 billion
What percentage of local newscasts focuses on crimes, accidents, or scheduled/staged events?
90
Bias can never help a journalist tell a story better.
F
Brian Williams was fired for lying about his involvement in Vietnam.
F
Copyright does not extend to intellectual property.
F
Digital photography has been around since 1971.
F
Freelance writers write for only one employer.
F
Photojournalism is one branch of journalism that is growing as social media grows.
F
Public service ads try to get people to buy a product.
F
The anonymous source at the heart of the Watergate investigation was nicknamed "Deep Chest."
F
The ethics of photojournalism are the same as other areas of journalism.
F
The piece of writing doesn't change if the topic or audience changes; the writer is in total control.
F
All of the following are types of magazine genres EXCEPT
contests.
Who was Walter Cronkite?
CBS newscaster
All journalists must be without bias to be successful.
F
People using which sites are less likely to get their news from social media?
Pinterest and Instagram
______________ is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
Rhetoric
Norman Rockwell provided 323 original covers for
Saturday Evening Post
Bloggers are part of new media.
T
ESPN is an example of narrowcasting.
T
Friedrich Koenig industrialized the printing press by attaching a steam engine to the printing press.
T
Howard Stern is famous for his offensive radio content, which led to many fines.
T
Marguerite Higgins was sent out of Korea by the military because she was a woman.
T
People who live a private life deserve more privacy consideration than a public figure does.
T
Ted Turner took a chance on cable news with CNN.
T
The invention of the 35mm camera made photojournalism easier and allowed photographers to capture events as they happened.
T
Rush Limbaugh is a famous figure in what media world?
Talk radio
What need spurred the birth of the paparazzi?
The 24-hour news cycle needed more fuel.
Which point of view do most journalists choose?
Third
"Serial" focuses on a case about the murder of
a high school student.
In 2012, the New York Post ran an image that critics said crossed an ethical line. It showed
a man who had fallen on the subway tracks.
The term photojournalism didn't become well known until
after World War II.
Journalism schools are now teaching students to be able to tell a story using _________________.
all of the above
Managing bias as a journalist can be done by
all of the above.
The parts of the rhetorical triangle are in a ______________ relationship.
dynamic
Photojournalists who use social media to their advantage do so by
building a large following.
The line in the newspaper that names the writer of the story is called the
byline
The invention of the 35mm camera changed photojournalism in the 1920s by allowing photojournalists to
capture candid images.
All of the following are sections in most daily newspapers EXCEPT
health care
The FCC keeps the airwaves free from ___________ content between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
indecent
60 Minutes was important for all of the following EXCEPT that
it prioritized foreign news to local or national news.
Telling customers that they only have until midnight to get sale prices is an appeal to
kairos.
Woodward and Bernstein's coverage of Watergate did all of the following EXCEPT
make them the most famous journalists at the New York Post.
Ethics are the ___________________________ that help you make decisions.
moral rules
A managerial audience
needs to make a decision based on the information you share.
News services offer __________________ content that can be developed and turned into articles.
newspapers
Using patriotic imagery to convince someone to support something is an appeal to
pathos.
The expert audience expects
technical language.
Kairos is an appeal to
timing
Propaganda is not used to convince someone
to buy something
Your writing voice should be
unique.