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| According to lecture, which of the following contributed most to changes in reporting styles in the Civil War? |
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| According to lecture, who invented the technology that broke the linkage between transportation and communication? |
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| According to lecture, who was most responsible for using suppression tactics in the U.S. mail? |
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| Who described American politics as a system of “democratic realism”? |
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| According to lecture, what was the Appeal Army’s political philosophy |
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| According to lecture, what author was launched by the Appeal to Reason? |
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| Which of the following was NOT one of the issues of the Free Love Press? |
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| The sanctity of marriage, hypocrisy of Victorian men, and sex vocabulary |
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| Which of the following has been a popular and continuous method for suppression of free expression in America? |
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| Prior restraint and libel charges |
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| "The irony of the Appeal Army is that its tactics...." |
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| its tactics sometimes violated socialist principals. |
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| Which is NOT a characteristic of public relations as discussed in class? |
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| PR is a strategic communication, never neutral or balanced, persuasive communication, and monitoring the environment. |
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| Which of the following first proposed PR counselors as “experts”? |
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| What journalistic development prompted Ivy Lee to begin a publicity business? |
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| What anarchist press leader was deported to Russia by the U.S. government? |
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| According to lecture, which publisher is incorrectly matched with a publication? |
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| According to lecture, which president ushered in a new era of populism? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following was known as the leader of the Penny Press movement? |
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| According to lecture, more circulation during the Penny Press era usually led to which of the following? |
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| Lower cost, which made people become more engaged |
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| According to lecture, what element is frequently absent from public relations practice? |
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| According to lecture, most early PR practitioners were trained in which of the following? |
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| Publicity is all power, censorship, cognitive dissonance, and journalism |
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| According to lecture, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of dissident presses? |
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| Characteristics ARE facing financial hardships and open for forum during times of turbulence |
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| According to lecture, which presidential election contributed most to the change in the news business model? |
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| The election of Andrew Jackson in 1824 |
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| According to lecture, what was publisher James Gordon Bennett’s favorite target in his newspaper? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following was the first document used to establish a new government? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| Which of the following was NOT a key to efforts by corporate leaders to put a more human face on their enterprise? |
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| Their key efforts were for happy people, and happy workers |
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| According to lecture, I.F. Stone avoided association with communists by appointing this person as his circulation manager. |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was NOT one of Osama bin Laden’s grievances against the U.S.? |
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| His grievances WERE: America’s military presence in Arab soil, US support of Israel, and supposed US involvement in the death of more than 1 million Iraqis |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of following was the only news organization that challenged Bush’s war plans? |
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| According to Streitmatter, one former White House official said Bush wanted the Iraq invasion ____________? |
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| Henry O”Neil, former secretary of the treasury |
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| According to Streitmatter, what broadcast provided the climactic moment in the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy? |
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| The Army-McCarthy hearings (covered mostly on ABC) |
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| According to Streitmatter, Joe McCarthy’s campaign was directed at which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was NOT one of the Washington Post reporters assigned to cover the
Watergate break-in? |
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| The reports that WERE: Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
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| According to Streitmatter, Deep Throat limited his activity to talking only to ___________? |
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| According to Streitmatter, political experts after the 2008 election agreed on which of the following? |
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| The expectation of Obama ended up working against him |
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| According to Streitmatter, the media treated Obama as a larger-than-life . . .. |
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| According to Streitmatter, a big reason the media favored Obama because . . .. |
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| He was the first candidate of color on the national ticket |
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| According to Streitmatter, another attractive element in Obama was his . . .. |
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| According to Streitmatter, journalists were too apologetic in their treatment of Obama’s relationship with . . . |
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| According to Streitmatter, the media covered up Obama’s lack of experience with which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, journalists covering McCain were more than eager to point out . . . |
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| That he was too old to be running for the presidential election, policies were similar to George Bush, and his bragging of wealth in the face of the nations economics crisis. |
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| According to Streitmatter, journalists portrayed Joe Biden as which of the following? |
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| Solid candidate of the vice presidency |
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| According to Streitmatter, journalists treated Sarah Palin as which of the following? |
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| Unintelligent and a bad choice for VP |
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| According to Streitmatter, the media bias for Obama worked against him because of which of the following? |
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| According to lecture, which was NOT an aspect of Bernays and Fleischman’s pioneering PR campaigns? |
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| They DID include: insight into audience and research connects PR with public opinion, never neutral or balanced, advanced strategic communication or persuasion, and monitoring the environment |
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| What advertising executive advocated a change in the nature of corporate advertising in the 1930s? |
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| Which anti-Vietnam publication focused its attention on the poor and powerless people of Vietnam? |
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| The Catholic worker, Dorothy Day |
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| What antagonists were most to blame for the plight of women in the late 1960s and early 1970s, according to the Women’s Liberation Press? |
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| Liberal counter culture men |
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| Which of the following was NOT a function of the early Black Panthers in Oakland in the mid-1960s? |
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| Their functions WERE: stopping police brutality, embracing self-defense, combat economic oppression, prevent Black genocide, resurrect Black manhood, and improve the Oakland ghettos |
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| What president is remembered as a pioneer in the use of media to communicate directly and intimately with the American
people? |
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| Which of the following was true about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they reported the Watergate break-in story? |
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| Woodward was conservative Yale grad; Bernstein was counterculture, dropped out of college to work at the post |
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| Who is considered the father of press criticism in the United States? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what were the most tangible products of the Civil Rights Movement? |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| According to Streitmatter, what was the most controversial television news story of the early years of the Vietnam War? |
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| ”The Zippo segment” bu Morley Safer on CBS |
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| Which president greatly escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam, sending hundreds of thousands of additional troops to Southeast Asia? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what single military action resulted in a major psychological victory for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese? |
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| Whose on-air declaration that the Vietnam War was unwinnable led many Americans to question the nation’s Vietnam policy for the first time? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following was the journalist who took the first stand against Vietnam? |
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| According to lecture, the first issue raised about Vietnam involved which of the following? |
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| According to lecture, what did the draft create during the Vietnam War? |
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| Burning of draft cards at colleges and inequality. The rich were usually on the safe side |
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| According to Streitmatter, what became the “smoking gun” that ultimately forced Richard Nixon to resign? |
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| Nixon destroyed the evidence of the break-in – missing tape recordings |
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| Which statement is NOT true about the reporting tactics of Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein? |
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| Their tactics WERE: knocking on doors, making telephones calls, going out and talking to people, badgering sources, called jurors at home, and reliance on Deep Throat |
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| According to lecture, Edward Bernays brought what key component to public relations? |
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| strategic communication and persuasion |
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| According to lecture, I.F. Stone avoided association with communists by appointing this person as his circulation manager? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what televised images were particularly important in galvanizing national support for the Civil Rights
Act and Voting Rights Act? |
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| Televised brutality of African-American in Birmingham and Selma |
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| According to lecture, the Black Panther newspaper focused on which of the following? |
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| The social and political revolution |
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| According to lecture, how many times has the United States been attacked in 230 years? |
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| According to lecture, George Seldes’ fatal error was... |
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| association with Bruce Minton |
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| According to lecture, George Seldes predicted which of the following phenomena in his paper in the 1940s? |
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| Corporatization of media and anti-Communist hysteria |
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| According to lecture, I.F. Stone’s writings built the foundation for... |
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| PM and the voice of the liberal movement of the 1960’s |
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| According to lecture, which of the following journalists was investigated by the FBI for 20 years? |
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| According to lecture, PM’s mission included which of the following? |
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| A paper free of clichés and one that could not be pushed around |
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| According to lecture, who was the longest sitting president in history? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following PR men was responsible for creating the “corporate soul”? |
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| According to lecture, the mainstream media were cheerleaders in Vietnam because of which of the following? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following was the first journalist to oppose the Vietnam War? |
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| According to lecture, I.F. Stone argued Vietnam was unwinnable by comparing the war to what relationship? |
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| military ineffective in guerrilla war among peasants, you cant win a peasant was alongside of a landlord |
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| According to lecture, the actual story of John Kerry’s experience in Vietnam appeared in which of the following? |
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| According to lecture, what new elements did the counterculture press introduce to the national conversation? |
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| Free Spirit: sex, drugs, and rock and roll; race, gender, class, personal freedom, the work ethic, recreational drugs, and the nature of consciousness |
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| According to lecture, the Berkeley Barb’s most notable story was about which of the following? |
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| Pig Slain – the paper won the battle over Peoples Park |
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| According to lecture, the decline of the counterculture press can be attributed to which of the following? |
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| FBI Director Hoover; went after it as blasphemy |
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| According to lecture, the Black Panthers’ first accomplishment involved which of the following? |
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| Creation of their own newspaper |
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| According to lecture, the Black Panther newspaper was bolstered by which of the following? |
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| Police murdered an innocent black man and the media did not over the story |
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| According to lecture, which of the following was NOT used by the FBI against the Black Panther newspaper? |
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| Tactics that were: murdering their leaders, burning down the warehouse, and 700 arrests |
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| According to lecture, what event helped spark the onset of the Stonewall Rebellion? |
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| The raid of the stonewall Inn by the mafia, Judy Garland’s funeral |
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| According to lecture, what group benefited most from the operation of gay/lesbian bars? |
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| According to lecture, editor Robin Morgan identified which of the following as the biggest obstacle to women’s liberation? |
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| According to lecture, dissident presses are most active during which of the following? |
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| According to lecture, which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that dissident presses matter? |
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| Dissident presses DO MATTER because they tae the temperature of the nation, direction of our culture, and measures the health of the first amendment |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Civil Rights Movement was spawned by which of the following? |
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| The Brown v. Board of Educaioon decision of “separate but equal” -- 1954 |
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| According to Streitmatter, what contributed most to spurring action during the Civil Rights Movement? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the first televised event of the civil rights movement involved which of the following? |
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| Desegregation of Central High School about the Little Rock 9 – 1957 |
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| According to Streitmatter, students at southern universities gladly welcomed black students during desegregation |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Freedom Riders experienced their harshest treatment in which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Birmingham Police Commissioner Bull Connor used which of the following to quell protestors? |
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| Police dogs and fire hoses |
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| According to Streitmatter, TV images in Birmingham provoked President Kennedy to do what? |
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| Propose civil rights legislation |
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| According to Streitmatter, which event outside Selma brought nationwide protests? |
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| According to Streitmatter, TV coverage prompted the passage of which of the following? |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| According to Streitmatter, NBC produced the “magnum opus” of the movement with which of the following? |
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| The American Revolution of ‘63 |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was a big change networks made to television news in 1963? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Viet Cong soldiers evaded American attacks by _____________? |
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| Melting into the jungle – guerilla warfare |
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| According to Streitmatter, Vietnam was the first and last war without which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, coverage of the Vietnam War was positive until when? |
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| According to Streitmatter, one network executive told his correspondents to get footage of _________________? |
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| NBC News – Vice president wants graphic images of US soldiers in combat |
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| According to Streitmatter, CBS News took intense heat from President Johnson for ________? |
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| The “Zippo Segment” by Morley Safer |
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| According to Streitmatter, TV networks refused to correct their portrayal of which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which TV personality most contributed to the change in public opinion on the Vietnam War? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following also contributed to war coverage turning negative? |
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| Public execution of a Viet Cong officer by general Nguyen Ngoc Loan |
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| According to Streitmatter, the government tried to censor the New York Times and Washington Post in which case? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Washington Post assigned which of the following to cover the Watergate break-in? |
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| Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
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| According to Streitmatter, who was the Watergate operative who the Post linked to the White House? |
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| Dwight L. Chapin – the White Hose aide |
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| According to Streitmatter, the two Post reporters were quite similar in their thinking, habits and mannerisms. |
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| False, Carl Bernstein identified with the counterculture and Bon Woodward was a Republican Ivy leave graduate |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Post reporters broke the law by doing which of the following? |
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| They contacted one of the jurors at their home |
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| According to Streitmatter, Deep Throat eventually was identified as which of the following? |
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| W. Mark – the iconic source |
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| According to Streitmatter, TV did a bad job on Watergate for which of the following reasons? |
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| There was little to no evidence – the story did not translate into visual images because of its complexity |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following bore the most responsibility for Post’s Watergate coverage? |
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| Executive editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katharine Graham |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was a remarkable indicator of widespread corruption in Watergate? |
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| 107. The misuse of campaign funds, laundered money, political sabotage, deception, and immorality. ABUSE OF POWER |
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| According to Streitmatter, Richard Nixon’s case died after discovery of which of the following? |
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| The tapes that proved he helped plan the cover-up plus the eighteen and a half-minute gap in one of the tape recordings that showed audio had been erased |
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| According to Streitmatter, the two Post reporters parlayed wealth through which of the following? |
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| Writing All the President’s Men that was adapted into a film |
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| According to Streitmatter, political experts credited Rush Limbaugh with which of the following? |
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| The Congressional turnover |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh led the move toward __________? |
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| Infotainment (news and show business) |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh was a poor country boy from Missouri who couldn’t understand why ordinary folk wouldn’t
pull themselves up to become millionaires. |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh chided vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro over which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh was credited with helping the cause of which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh worshippers often refer to themselves as which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh pioneered the use of ____________ with his staunch conservatism. |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh’s work was criticized mostly for which of the following? |
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| Being loose with facts – errors |
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| According to Streitmatter, which president handed Limbaugh the leadership of conservatives? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Limbaugh affected American journalism in two ways, including which of the following? |
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| Damaging media credibility |
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| According to Streitmatter, journalists failed to answer which of the following essential questions in reporting on 9-11? |
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| "Why did terrorist attack the World Trade Center?” |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following papers broke all-time records on Pulitzer Prizes for 9-11
coverage__________? |
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| According to Streitmatter, news organizations allowed George Bush to establish which of the following as the “why” of 9-11? |
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| Enemies of freedom attack the United States |
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| According to Streitmatter, mainstream media’s failures pushed citizens where to find answers? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was NOT one of Osama bin Laden’s grievances against the U.S.? |
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| According to Streitmatter, news organizations didn’t cover the why because they ____________? |
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| They didn’t want to be “Un-American” – overwhelmed with answering the four W’s |
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| According to Streitmatter, Bush had a clear path to war with Iraq by doing which of the following? |
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| Weapons of Mass destruction and link Iraq to Al-Qaeda |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of following was the only news organization that challenged Bush’s war plans? |
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| According to Streitmatter, one former White House official said Bush wanted the Iraq invasion ____________? |
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| Months before the 9/11 attacks took place |
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| According to Streitmatter, when mainstream media answered the “why,” they failed to do which of the following? |
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| Failed to give stores the same weight – they did not address it directly or prominently |
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