Q&A Hero

Q: According to the textbook, the high-low model of culture limits the way we look at and discuss culture today.

Q: The classical view of art is that it should aim to instruct and uplift.

Q: Google is the most profitable company of the digital age so far.

Q: Media marketers refer to network programs that are repurposed for cable as "cross-platform" programs.

Q: Mass media audiences generally seek out messages that correspond to their beliefs and values.

Q: The meaning of a message can be affected by a recipient's gender, age, education level, ethnicity, and occupation.

Q: The senders of messages often have little control over how their messages will be received.

Q: In the linear model of mass communication, gatekeepers are the authors, producers, agencies, and organizations that create the message.

Q: The way we consume media today, like watching a TV show on our own schedule rather than when it airs on television, favors shared experiences over individual interests.

Q: The telegraph and newspapers transformed news into a salable commodity.

Q: The computer was the first electronic medium.

Q: The printing press fostered the rise of tribal communities.

Q: Gutenberg's invention of movable type allowed the book to become the first mass-marketed communication product in history.

Q: With the coming of the printing press, the printed newspaper became the first mass-marketed product in history.

Q: The manuscript culture that existed between 1000 BCE and the mid-fifteenth century primarily served the ruling classes.

Q: Gutenberg played an active role in the transition from oral to written culture.

Q: No media existed prior to the coming of the electronic era in the nineteenth century.

Q: According to the textbook, the mass media are industries that produce and distribute cultural products to large numbers of people.

Q: What bias is one where the Journalists assert themselves into the stories?

Q: Part of a Journalists job is to ask the tough questions. (A) True (B) False

Q: In Status Quo bias the news media believes the system works? (A) True (B) False

Q: Engaged independence is when a Journalist follows the facts wherever they take him/her. (A) True (B) False

Q: Structural Bias is a type of Journalism practice, which favors certain kinds of news topics and presentations over others. (A) True (B) False

Q: Anderson Cooper was criticized for saying that the Egyptian government was lying. (A) True (B) False

Q: Taking the public’s side means practicing what Kovach and Rosenstiel call “engaged objectivity.” (A) True (B) False

Q: The fairness bias creates the illusion that the game of politics is always contentious and never cooperative. (A) True (B) False

Q: Reporting facts objectively equals “truth.” (A) True (B) False

Q: Objectivity is something that can guide journalists as individuals but not the methods journalists employ in their work. (A) True (B) False

Q: The practice of allowing journalists to pursue truth with loyalty only to citizens is… (A) independence (B) objectivity (C) structural bias (D) ethics (E) stenography

Q: A reporter's ability to completely detach from an issue he or she is covering is called… (A) independence (B) objectivity (C) structural bias (D) political bias (E) both A and B

Q: The editor who questioned whether journalists should challenge false statements made by lawmakers worked for… (A) The New York Times (B) Newsweek (C) Rolling Stone (D) The Atlantic (E) Salon

Q: What is the definition of Visual Bias?

Q: What is the defination of fairness bias?

Q: Name Five types of structural bias

Q: What type of bias is driven on a deadline? (A) Temporal (B) Narrative (C) Expediency (D) Glory (E) Bad news

Q: Michael Hastings worked for what news publication when he wrote "The Runaway General?" (A) Washington Post (B) Rolling Stone Magazine (C) New York Times (D) CBS News (E) None of the Above

Q: What Network News Channel says their coverage is "Fair and Balance"? (A) MSNBC (B) CNN (C) Fox News Channel (D) CBS

Q: Structural biases in reporting the news include… (A) independence (B) temporal (C) objectivity (D) all of the above (E) A and B only

Q: ___________ means that news organizations favor certain kinds of news topics and presentations over others. (A) Independence (B) Objectivity (C) Structural bias (D) Ethics (E) Advocacy

Q: The push for profits can push journalists to do fewer tough and expensive stories in favor of more easy and cheap ones. (A) True (B) False

Q: Name Four Major Privacy Claims:

Q: With false light privacy, a report need not be defamatory to be actionable as false light. (A) True (B) False

Q: New York Times v. Sullivan was a case about civil rights in South Carolina. (A) True (B) False

Q: Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation, is called appropration. (A) True (B) False

Q: In Gitlow v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the guarantees of freedom of speech apply to actions taken by all governments. (A) True (B) False

Q: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association was an invasion of privacy case. (A) True (B) False

Q: The First Amendment tells the government what it cannot do. It does not tell people what they can do. (A) True (B) False

Q: The government generally is allowed to punish speakers when harm is caused by what a speaker said. (A) True (B) False

Q: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times in New York Times v. Sullivan. (A) True (B) False

Q: Sedition laws make it a crime to criticize both the President and the National Government? (A) True (B) False

Q: "Shield Laws" provide some sort of protection for Journalists facing orders to testify or provide notes, photographs or other reporting work. (A) True (B) False

Q: What does Libel mean?

Q: What Does Defamation Mean?

Q: The first time that the Court invoked the First Amendment to prevent libel actions was in which case? (A) Texas v. Johnson (B) United States v. O’Brien (C) New York Times v. Sullivan (D) Yates v. U.S. (E) Texas v. Johnson

Q: Which was the historic case about flag burning as a form of free speech? (A) New York Times Co. v. United States (B) Texas v. Johnson (C) Branzburg v. Hayes (D) Gitlow v. New York (E) None of the above

Q: Which of these cases involves privacy issues? (A) Yates v. U.S. (B) Gitlow v. New York (C) New York Times Co. v. United States (D) United States v. O’Brien (E) None of the above

Q: Appropriation is… (A) the use of one’s name or likeness for personal or commercial gain without consent or compensation. (B) the publication of information about someone’s personal life that has not been previously revealed to the public. (C) intentionally intruding, physically or otherwise, upon another person’s seclusion or solitude. (D) written or broadcast defamation. (E) the crime of revolting or inciting revolt against government.

Q: Government prohibition of speech in advance of publication is called… (A) sedition (B) Prior Restraint (C) defamition (D) False Light (E) Invasion of Privacy

Q: Which is not a protection in the First Amendment? (A) Press (B) Speech (C) Religion (D) Voting rights (E) Petition

Q: About half of those responding to a First Amendment Center/American Journalism Review survey said the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees. (A) True (B) False

Q: Name 3 steps in ethical-decision making?

Q: The actions of News of the World were… (A) illegal (B) unethical (C) both illegal and unethical (D) neither illegal nor unethical (E) fabrication

Q: The "Cardinal Tenet of Journalism" is defined by truth being a key standard by which it is judged. (A) True (B) False

Q: Meyers advises journalists to do a gut check to see what feels right before you get too clouded by the facts. (A) True (B) False

Q: Doing good journalistic work often means that a journalist contributes to causing some sort of harm. (A) True (B) False

Q: Perfect duties are problematic because you won’t always be in a position to act on them. (A) True (B) False

Q: Beneficence is making up for the harm you've caused others. (A) True (B) False

Q: Formal justice is giving people what they’ve legitimately earned and treating people equally. (A) True (B) False

Q: Most true ethical dilemmas involve conflict between two legitimate interests. (A) True (B) False

Q: Journalists are self-policing. (A) True (B) False

Q: _______ is defined as the norms a group or society follows or a universal code of conduct for everyone. (A) Ethics (B) Morality (C) Fidelity (D) Perfect duty (E) Imperfect duty

Q: Prima facie means… (A) ethical reasoning (B) moral reasoning (C) distributive justice (D) formal justice (E) common sense

Q: Distributive justice is defined as (A) improving the lives of others (B) honoring the autonomy of another person (C) helping the least advantaged members of society (D) treating people equally (E) giving people what they've earned

Q: Which professional organization has developed its own code of journalistic ethics? (A) Radio Television Digital News Association (B) Society of Professional Journalists (C) National Press Photographers Association (D) All of these

Q: Which is NOT a perfect duty? (A) Fidelity (B) Formal justice (C) Distributive justice (D) Nonmaleficence (E) Reparation

Q: Meyers' framework for ethical decision making starts with… (A) getting the facts (B) listening to your gut (C) keeping an open mind (D) minimizing harm (E) identifing the duties at stake

Q: The Journalist’s Creed by Walter Williams stresses which of the following? (A) Accuracy (B) Truthfulness (C) Fairness (D) Independence (E) All of the above are Correct

Q: Which focuses on rules and duties? (A) Utilitarianism (B) Deontology (C) Teleology (D) Consequentialism (E) Virtue ethics

Q: The Journalist's Creed was written by the dean of which school? (A) New York School of Journalism (B) Poynter (C) Boston University (D) Missouri School of Journalism (E) None of the Above

Q: The Journalist’s Creed by Walter Williams stresses which of the following? (A) All of the above are Correct (B) Accuracy (C) Truthfulness (D) Fairness (E) Independence