Chapter 3 Quiz 1

Question 1

The ________ is credited as being the first penny paper.

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Question 2

Approximately how many weekly newspapers did the United States have in 1840?

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Question 3

The first major wire service was ____.

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Question 4

What kind of journalistic style begins with the most noteworthy or dramatic information before narrowing the account down with less significant details?

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Question 5

Which of these elements were part of yellow journalism?

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Question 6

In the late 1800s, the story-driven model of journalism was commonly followed by the _____.

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Question 7

When Adolph Ochs bought the ____, he brought back the ideal of an informational and impartial press.

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Question 8

Which of the following takes a more "scientific" attitude to news reporting?

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Question 9

Which of the following aims to explain the ramifications of key issues or events by placing them in broader context?

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Question 10

When did U.S. newspapers begin providing more interpretive journalism?

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Question 11

Who made a name for himself through his World War II reporting and later his television program See It Now?

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Who made a name for himself through his World War II reporting and later his television program See It Now?
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Question 12

What is a shortcoming of more visually oriented TV news?

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Question 13

Which of these is a way that cable has transformed TV news?

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Question 14

Which of the following is an advantage of online news?

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Question 15

A news story about the CEO of a national company demonstrates which criteria of newsworthiness?

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Question 16

News stories about issues that could affect a family’s income or change a community’s laws are stories of _____.

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Question 17

How many cities in the United States currently have more than one independent, competing paper?

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Question 18

Which of the following is a convention of journalistic neutrality?

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Question 19

Judging other countries and cultures on the basis of how “they live up to or imitate American practices and values” is known as _______.

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Question 20

Favoring the small over the large and the rural over the urban is also known as _____.

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Question 21

More newspapers are trying to boost income by using what?

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Question 22

The top ten newspaper chains controlled how much of the total newspaper circulation in the U.S. by the early 2000s?

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Question 23

Which of the following is true about public journalism?

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Question 24

The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight follow in the tradition of what earlier TV program?

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The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight follow in the tradition of what earlier TV program?
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Question 25

What is deliberative democracy?

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What is deliberative democracy?
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