Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
83 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Who said “ALL PROFOUNDLY ORIGINAL ART LOOKS UGLY AT FIRST.” |
Clement Greenberg, 1909-1994. |
|
|
Who said “EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY IS BY ITS VERY NATURE OUT OF CONTROL,AND LEADS TO UNPREDICTABLE OUTCOMES.” |
William Gibson, 1948-Present. |
|
|
What decade ushered in the "modern moving world?" |
1870's |
|
|
What technologies were invented in the 1870's that joined telegraphy, railroads, and photography in "annihilating time and space?" |
The telephone and phonograph. |
|
|
Who was Eadweard J. Muybridge? |
A photographer who lived from 1830-1904 and was known as " The man who stopped time." |
|
|
What crime was Muybridge acquitted of? |
"Justifiable Homicide" of his wife's lover, Major Harry Larkyn. |
|
|
Who owns Occident the Horse and what did he want to prove? |
Leland Stanford, wanted to prove that all four hooves hit the ground at once when trotting. |
|
|
Who helped Stanford prove his theory with their invention of the zoopraxiscope? |
Muybridge. |
|
|
Why is Thomas Edison important? |
Inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.... One of the first inventors to applythe principles of mass production andlargeteamwork to the process ofinvention,and therefore is often creditedwith the creation of the firstindustrial research laboratory. |
|
|
Why is George Eastman important? |
He invented the Kodak Camera in 1888 using roll film invented by Peter Houston. |
|
|
What is the kinetoscope? |
Early motion-picture viewing device designed by Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. Edison said it's purpose was to do 'FOR THE EYE WHAT THEPHONOGRAPH DOES FOR THE EAR.' |
|
|
Who decided that 35MM film would be the standard (still used today)? |
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. |
|
|
What is Fred Ott known for? |
Being the first person on film, recorded sneezing. |
|
|
What is the Black Maria? |
DICKSON STAGED & SHOT BLACKSMITH SCENE #1 INSIDE THIS ROTATING CONTRAPTION SOMETIME IN APRIL 1893, "America's First Movie Studio." |
|
|
What is Yellow Journalism? |
Journalism based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. |
|
|
What are the characteristics of Yellow Journalism? |
1. Scare headlines. 2. Lavish use of pictures. 3. Misleading headlines and falsified interviews. 4. Lavish use of color supplements. 5. Dramatic sympathy or rooting for the underdog against the system. |
|
|
What is the Yellow Kid? |
The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst'sNew York Journal. Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic stripHogan's Alley. It was one of the first supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. THE YELLOW KID IS NOWCHIEFLY REMEMBERED for its connection to the coining of the term, Yellow Journalism. |
|
|
What was New Journalism? |
New Journalism was a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.Articles in the New Journalism style tended not to be found in newspapers, but rather in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, CoEvolutionQuarterly, Esquire, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, andfor a short while in the early 1970s, Scanlan's Monthly. |
|
|
Who coined the term New Journalism and who were the "Star Reporters?" |
The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism,which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Robert Christgau, and others. |
|
|
Who defined news as "anything that makes people talk?" |
Editor Charles A. Dana. |
|
|
What war was potentially caused by Yellow Journalism? |
The Spanish-American War. |
|
|
What two yellow-journalists and their papers are credited for causing the Spanish-American War? |
Joseph Pulitzer, The New York World. William Randolph Hearst, The New York Morning Journal. |
|
|
How is the term Yellow Journalism used today? |
To decry any journalism that reports news in an unprofessional or unethical manner. |
|
|
What were the journalistic values Pulitzer explained to Firestone? |
1. Independence was a paper's most valuable attribute. 2. Readability with a theme of popular interest. 3. Striking use of language. 4. Use humor. |
|
|
Who went to Cuba with Richard Harding Davis and illustrated an image of a female stripped and searched by males even though in reality they were checked by other females? |
Frederic Remington. |
|
|
What do the 7 W's of Journalism stand for? |
Who? What? Where? When? Why? Whine? What's next? |
|
|
What is the only type of journalism that the Government has regulated and why? |
Radio, scarcity theory. |
|
|
What does the FCC operate in? |
Public interest, convenience, and necessity. |
|
|
What were the two critical outcomes of the Times v. Sullivan Case? |
1. Public figures are up to scrutiny and they cannot sue for it. 2. Malice Standard: Need to prove malice or poor thought by journalists in order to sue, very difficult. |
|
|
What was the Pentagon Papers Case and what came of it? |
This case was about the government not telling the full history of what happened in the Vietnam War. It inhibited the government of preliminary censorship except in the case of extreme national security and it reinforced that the watchdog function of journalism is fundamental to the constitution. |
|
|
What was Nellie Bly's real name and where did she get her alias from? |
Elizabeth J. Cochran, Stephen Foster song title. BONUS: Her original pen name was the "little orphan girl." |
|
|
How did Nellie Bly get started at the Pittsburgh Dispatch? |
She sent in a rebuttal to a sexist editor then wrote about the plight of women factory workers. |
|
|
When wanting to avoid working on the "women's sections" of the paper, Nellie Bly became a foreign correspondent in what country where the president threatened to send her to prison among other journalists? |
Mexico. |
|
|
While working for The World, what undercover work did Nellie Bly do? |
She pretended to be insane for 10 days to expose the problems of the Women's Insane Asylum on Blackwell Island. |
|
|
What did Nellie Bly recreate by traveling around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds? |
Jules Vernes' Around the World in 80 Days. |
|
|
What is a muckraker? |
A reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. |
|
|
Who said "I have seen the future and it works?" |
Lincoln Steffens. |
|
|
Who wrote the Shame of American Cities? |
Lincoln Steffens. |
|
|
What did Lincoln Steffens say he did instead of being a muckraker? |
He SIMPLY GONE WHERE SOMEONE ELSE...HAD BEEN DOING THE WORK, AND PICKED UP THEFRUITS OF THEIR LABOR AND RISK, DESCRIBEDAND INTERPRETED THEIR EVIDENCE TO [A NATIONALAUDIENCE.] |
|
|
Why did Chicago experience massive commercial growth? |
The Westward expansion of railroads, the Mississippi River blockade during the Civil War, and the influx of meatpackers and livestock. |
|
|
Who developed the first refrigerated railroad car in 1882? |
Gustavus Swift. |
|
|
Who worked undercover for 7 weeks at a Chicago Slaughterhouse and wrote about his experiences in his book, The Jungle, as well as appearing in An Appeal to Reason, a socialist paper? |
Upton Sinclair. |
|
|
Who said "I aimed at American's hearts, but hit their stomachs?" |
Upton Sinclair. |
|
|
What is the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906?(FMIA) |
A United StatesCongress Act that worked to prevent adulterated or mis-branded meatand meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat andmeat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.These requirements also apply to imported meat products, which must beinspected under equivalent foreign standards. |
|
|
Who said “Imagination is the only key to thefuture.Without it none exists --with it all things are possible?" |
Ida Tarbell. |
|
|
Who covered the Standard Oil Company monopoly and Rockefeller in a 19 piece story? |
Ida Tarbell, book on it ranked No. 5 in a NYU top 100 journalistic works of the 20th century. |
|
|
Who used casual cameras to make the book How the Other Half Lives? |
Jacob Riis. |
|
|
Who said “I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared totell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than tosave my skin by taking back what I said?" |
Ida B. Wells |
|
|
During the period from 1882 to 1900 how many blacks were lynched in ten southern states? |
1,193 |
|
|
What is the Communications Act of 1934? |
Written and passed during FDR's first term, the Communications Act of 1934 consolidated existing radio, television, and telephone regulations and created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to oversee all interstate and foreign communications. |
|
|
What is Roger's Diffusion of Innovation? |
Following the introduction, growth, maturity, and decline of a piece of technology first with the innovators, early adopters, and early majority hitting its peak and then having the late majority and laggards. |
|
|
Who was known as the Iron Man of Radio? |
Robert 'Bob' Trout |
|
|
Why is Gerda Taro famous and who was her partner? |
Companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa.Taro is regarded often as the first female photojournalistto cover the front lines of a war and to die while doing so. |
|
|
Who said "If your picturesaren't good enough,you aren't close enough?" |
Robert Capa. |
|
|
Who were the Murrow Boys? |
Primarily CBS reporters hired by Murrow during WWII, Mary Marvin Breckinridge (female), William L. Shirer, Thomas Grandin, Larry LeSueur, Eric Sevareid, Cecil Brown, Winston Burdett, Howard K. Smith, Charles Collingwood, William Downs, and Richard C. Hottelet. |
|
|
Who is Martha Gellhorn and who was her partner? |
Ernest Hemingway, she was considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century (better than Hemingway). |
|
|
Who is this quote about: "[He] COVERED WWII THEWAY THE INFANTRY SOLDIER FOUGHTIT; ON THE GROUND AND ON THEMOVE, SUBJECT TO FEAR, FILTH ANDTHE CAPRICIOUS FATES THAT DEALT DEATH TO ONE MAN, LIFE TOANOTHER. [He] WAS A NOVELTYAMONG WAR CORRESPONDENTS ONLY RARELY DID HE WRITE ABOUTTHE SO-CALLED, “BIG PICTURE.”RATHER, [He] FOCUSED ON THEDIVIDUAL COMBATANT—HOW HELIVED, ENDURED BY TURNS BATTLE." |
Ernie Pyle. |
|
|
Who said "Serious, careful, honestjournalism is essential,not because it is aguiding light butbecause it is a form ofhonorable behavior,involving the reporterand thereader?" |
Martha Gellhorn. |
|
|
What news medium does radio flow into? |
Broadcast Television. |
|
|
What was so special about FDR's state of the union address? |
Goes to hill at night to present in person and has a national radio hookup, both of which are unprecedented. |
|
|
Where does the term 'anchorman' come from? |
METAPHOR FROMSTRONGEST RUNNER ON A RELAY TEAMTHE ONE TRUSTED TO RUN THE FINALLEG OF A RACE. |
|
|
Why is Douglass Edwards important? |
He became the anchor of CBS radio and experimented with television when it was a new invention. |
|
|
Why did Ted Church not want CBS's big radio stars working with television? (Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, etc.) |
Pictures distracted from the stories and turned anchormen into actors. |
|
|
Who was the term anchor invented for? Hint: He was the most important anchor in the history of broadcast journalism. |
Walter Cronkite. |
|
|
What is the word for anchorman in Sweden? |
Cronkiter. |
|
|
Why did Cronkite insist that he be the "managing editor" of the evening news? |
He had wire service experience and a front line reporter background. |
|
|
What made Cronkite the "Most Trusted Man in America?" |
HE APPEAREDKNOWLEDGEABLE BECAUSE HE WAS KNOWLEDGEABLE. KNEWPEOPLE, EXPERIENCE...DID HIS HOMEWORK. HE SPENT HOURSAND HOURS COMMITTING TO MEMORY INFORMATION FROMBRIEFING BOOKS COMPILED BY HIS STAFF |
|
|
What helped make “THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITHWALTER CRONKITE” so successful? |
THE TWO AND AHALF MINUTE COMMENTARIES OF 'MURROW BOY' ERICSEVAREID (1912-1992) A GIFTED WRITER AND ESSAYIST. |
|
|
Who said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America" during the Vietnam War? |
President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
|
|
What was Cronkite's sign off? |
"And that's the way it is." |
|
|
Who was CBS's anchor following Cronkite? |
Dan Rather. |
|
|
When did the sale of newspapers begin to drop? |
Starting in the 1940s as new technology emerged (radio/television) |
|
|
Where are the roots of New Journalism? |
Old Journalism |
|
|
Who was John Hersey? |
New Journalist, spoke on WWII |
|
|
What was Truman Capote's goal? |
HAVE HIS PIECE,HIS BOOK READ LIKE A NOVEL BUTNOTHING IN IT MADE UP…NOFICTIONS |
|
|
What was Gloria Steinem's first official assignment with the Esquire? |
Write about contraception. (1962) |
|
|
What was Gloria Steinem and why? |
A feminist because in 1969 she wrote about abortion and it clicked for her. NOTE: She was a Playboy Bunny. |
|
|
What is Paul Williams the father of? |
Rock criticism, Crawdaddy magazine taken from the Night Club the Rolling Stones first performed at. |
|
|
Who made Gonzo Journalism popular? |
Hunter S. Thompson. |
|
|
What is Gonzo Journalism? |
A style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. |
|
|
What unwritten rule came from the Watergate Scandal? |
UNLESS TWO SOURCESCONFIRMED A CHARGE INVOLVING ACTIVITY LIKELY TOBE CRIMINAL, THE SPECIFIC ALLEGIATION WAS NOTUSED IN THE PAPER. |
|
|
What do wars do for journalism? |
Intensify trends, clarify, accelerate technological changes that change reporting, new journalism paradigms. |
|
|
What is the meaning behind the hedgehog and the fox? |
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. |
