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30 Cards in this Set
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What is journalism?
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A public service that allows us to serve as the eyes and ears of the society in which we live.
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Biggest Medium in the world
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New York Times
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Journalists are...
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creators of reality,
recorders of history, historians of the present, agenda settlers of the community, ensurers of the protection of democracy in this country, entertainers, enhancers of commercial value in society |
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Key battle that goes on in every news room in the world:
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Do we give our consumers the information they WANT to have or what we THINK they want to have.
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communication:
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sending and receiving messages,
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Human mode of communication:
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1. source
2. encode the message 3. channel/medium reaches your ears 4. decoder (receiver) |
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entropy
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loss of information from when event occurs to the time we hear it and it reaches your ears
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dissonance
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when we have a problem believing what the media says
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selective exposure
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what you choose to expose yourself too
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selective perception
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we all see the same story, but we perceive in differently
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selective retention
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we remember what means the most to us
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objectivity
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sacred for journalists, you strive for it, however, there is no such thing s it. but we can attempt to achieve airness
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mass
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no number we have that determines it, requires presence of heterogenius group of people, audience is anonymouse to the mass comunicator, exister of common symbols, lack of immediate feedback
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what makes something newsworthy?
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location, proximity, out of the ordinary, timeliness, biggness, of event, etc
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News =
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Stimulus (news item) plus media (reporters, etc) plus audience equals news
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what is it that the media does?
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to inform, educate.
they guide our opinions put things in context they entertain we sell (major part of income) we serve as the watchdogs to those in power |
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Father of history
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Herodotus
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acta diurma
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sheet that included important info placed on the roman senate door
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johannes gutenberg - 1440
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invents moveable type, metal, revolutionized mass communication
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1517
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Martin Luther posts his thesis, done in moveable type
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1622
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Catholic Church, Pope Leo develops the 1st public relations office, agency to propogate the faith
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1534
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Henry 8th decided that people should not be allowed to write books because they are writing about him, they need to get a license from him if they want to write a book
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1644
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Areopagitica, John Milton wrote that it was time for licensing to be gone, people could read what they wanted to read, people should decide for themselves what is truthful
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broadsheet
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a newspaper of large size, 1690 in U.S., other countries early as 1605
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1645
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Avis, oldest newspaper in circulation, from Sweden
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1631
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Gazette di France, second oldest
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1665
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London Gazette, 3rd oldest, did and is still published by public currency
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1780
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NZZ, Zurich, Switzerland
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1788
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Times of London
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Ben Harris
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Started a coffee house before a newspaper
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