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Blevens Final Review
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Journalism
Undergraduate 1
04/29/2015

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