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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| california shield law |
right to refuse to testify in court. |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Copyright |
-protects itelectual property
-ideas and facts cannot be copyrighted
-eventually expire
-fair use |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| invasion of privacy |
-intrustion into a person's solitude
-putting peopel in a false light
-commercial appropriation |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Libel Defenses |
-truth
-privileges
-statute of limiations
-california retraction law |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| What is a public figure |
-difference between officials and figures
-pervasive public figured
-limited public figured
-involuntary public figures |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| What is negligence |
resonable reporter standard
-actual malice standard
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Damage to reputation |
-accusations of crime
-harming ability to conduct business
-accusation of serious immortality
-accusation of having a loathsome disease |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Elements of Libel |
-publication
-identification
-falsity
-negligence
-damage to reputation |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Libel |
-printed defamation of character |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| Areas of Concern with Journalism and the law |
-Libel
-Invasion of Privacy
-Copyright |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:02 GMT |
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| TV news formats |
-reader copy
-voice-overs
voice-overs to soundbite
-package stories
-live shots |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| radio news formats |
-written copy/voiceers
-sound bites
-wraparound
-mini-documentary |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| when news breaks |
-find out what is going on
-get in position to get good visuals
-creation package
-need to be versatile |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| Broadcast journalist |
-importance of timeliness
-information vs. explanation
-visual or audio impact |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| graphic journalist |
trained in coveying a lot of information visually
-types of graphics; charts, illustrations, explanatory |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| page designers |
-assemble all the pieces into coherent package
-skilled in computer design
-must understand news valus
-deadline oriented
-design in publication's personality |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| digital photography |
-no more waiting for film to process
-saves $
-can transmit photos from fields
-digital darkrooms-pluses and minuses |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| Picture Composition |
-requires trainign and practice
-action is better
-facial expressions make the picture
-capturing a true moment in time |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| fucntions in photojournalism |
-illustration
-context
-supplies visual clues |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| trends in visual journalism |
-more is better
-teechnology makes it easier
-better training in visuals
-impact of the internet |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:08:40 GMT |
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| BLOGS |
-important part of new media landscape
-great potential, but most have very limited audiences
-are they journalism? it depends. |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:28 GMT |
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| News site ownership |
-extensions of "traditional" news media
-Web-only publications |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:28 GMT |
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| sources of news on the WWW |
-Shovelware
-moderate updating
-agressive updating
-original content |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:28 GMT |
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| strengths of the www |
-capacity
-flexibility
-immediacy
-variety
-expansion
-context
-permanence
-interactivity |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:28 GMT |
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| Freelancing |
-control your destiny
-must be really self-motivated |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| types of magazine stories |
-extended feature stories
-personality profiles
-analysis and interpretion IR
-literary journalism
-travel |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| Key Jobs |
-Publisher
-Editor
-managing editor
-section editors
-design/art director |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| Magazine organization |
the magazine triad
-Editorial
-Audience
-Advertising |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| types of magazines |
-consumer
-business,trade, professional
-sponsored, association, or company
-"zines" |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| Difficulties in working in a magazine |
-exceedingly high standards
-extremely competetive
-frequency of title failure
-often elements of drudge work
-pay is not all that great |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| why some writers prefer magazines |
-not burdened with daily deadlines
-ability to write about more intersting things
-better story display
-more prestegious
-allows more creativity and story telling
-more impact on audience |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| Magazines-How they differ |
-Opportunity to explore subject in depth
-often carry a tone
-speculization
-less frequent deadlines |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:54:35 GMT |
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| network news |
-developed from network radio news
-once highly popular
-influence/audience was waned with fracturing of media audiences (paritcularly the growth of cable TV)
-Newsmagazines |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| Television |
-1,600 high-poer and 1,600 low-power stations
-highly profitable
-emphasis on entertainment
-affiliated with networks
-local news |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| Threats to radio |
-satelitte
-internet radio |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| national public rado |
-more than 500 NPS affiliates
-Known for depth of coverage
-main news programs |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| overview of radio |
-12,000 stations
-as many as 500million radio receivers
-radio formats
-radio structure |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| Weaknesses of Broadcasting |
-Less reliance on reporting more reliance on pundits
-Short and Shallow
-Pictures/audio drive story
-Emphasize the superficial rather than the substantial
-overuse of cliches |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| Strengths of Broadcasting |
-Impact
-Immediacy
-Visuals
-Passive-engagement
-A "shared" medium |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:09 GMT |
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| The Business Side |
-Advertising
-Circulation
-Production
-Accounting/HR |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:42:31 GMT |
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| Inside the newsroom |
-Organiziation
-Copy Flow
-The editorial page |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:42:31 GMT |
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| The Newspaper Industry |
-Clustering-the Bay Area example
-Concentration of ownership
-Number of newspaper
2004-1,000 and about
57,000 circulation
-Circulation peaked.
-Newspaper readership
-Demographics |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:42:31 GMT |
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| The Internet |
-Tim Berners-Lee
-News on demand
-Media convergence
-Effect in print journalsim
- Still playing out |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Television Changes everything |
-Technical questions delayed its roll-out
-Douglas Edwards, Camel Caravan
-Huntley-Brinkley Report
-JFK Assasination
-CNN |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| 4 Notable early radio broadcasters |
-Lowell Thomas
-Dorothy parker
-Walter Winchell
-Edward R. Murrow |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Advent of Broadcasting |
-First station in 1920
-Explosive Growth
-FCC |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Growth of Advertising |
-Made newspapers "independent"
-Decline in competition |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Muckrakers |
investigations societal issues
-Ida Wells
*womens rights activist-against lynching
-Lincoln Steffens
*soviet union
-Upton Sinclair
*The jungle |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Stunt Journalism |
San Fran Examiner
-Nellie Bly
*faked insanity to get itno a mental institution. Worked for Pulitizers MAG New York World
*Also did around the world in eighty days |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Adolph Ochs |
-Buys the New York Times
-All the news that's fit to print
-Respectable journalism
-brought he paper back to having respect |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Hearst-Pulitzer Newspaper wat |
-Sensationalism
*loud, false
-Jingoism
*extreme patriotism in the form of agressive foreign policy
-The Spanish-American War
-All done to boost circulations |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| William Randolph Hearst |
-San Fran Examiner
-New York Journal
-Steals Pulitzers Staff
-Tries to our-Pulitizer |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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| Joseph Pulitzer |
-New York World
-Illustrations
-Promised better news coverage
-Crusades
-Yellow kid and yellow journalism
-later years |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:33 GMT |
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HISTORY since the CIVIL WAR
Names to know.. |
Charles Dana
-Journalist New York Tribune during Civil War
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
-Publisher New York Herald during civil war
E.L. Godkin
-Publicist New York Times |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:35:32 GMT |
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| McCarthyism and Press Complicity-BACKROUND |
-A Cold war well under way
-Americans afraid of Russia and Communism
-Republicans accuse Democrats of being "soft on communism"
-McCarthy on speaking on tour says he has 205 names of communist in government
-continued to build on this when he saw the attention it recieved. |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:06:27 GMT |
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| The Civil War |
-Public craved information about the war
-Heavily covered
-Military secrets revealed
-Casuality lists
-Illustrations of war |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Antebellum Journalism (pre-war) |
-Abolition Journalism
*places->
-Lundy
-Garrison
-Douglass |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Jordon Gordon Bennett |
-Language of the common folks
-politically independent
-emphasis on crime news
-wanted the story first
-womens new
-sports
-personals |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| The Penny Press, 1830 |
-Development of rotary press
-Newspapers sold by the copt, rather than subscription
-Early attemptys; Horace Greeley, Benjamin Day
-Less interest in poltiics, more in human interest
-the new york sun
-sold them for only a penny instead of 6 cents |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| The Partisan Era |
-The Federalist papers
-Newspapers conrolled by factions
-Government subsides
-By subrscription
-Alien and Sedition Acts
-Coverage of Congress |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Three things that led to The Revolution |
-The Stamp Act
-Adams and Paine
-Intolerance
*James Rivington
-opened a shop in philly, great journalist but wrote a lot about his disagreement with the government and did many satires. |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Benjamin Franklin |
-First prominent US Journalist
-Pennsylvania Gazette
-Helped other publishers across the colonies
-Included advertising
-Large influence |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Three Early American Journalism |
_Publick Occurences, 1690
-Boston News-Letter
-New England Courant |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Two Early English newspapers |
-Henry's Muddiman's Oxford Gazette
-Elizabeth Mallett's Daily Courant |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Martin Luther |
-95 Theses, 1617
*gave way to protestinism and reformed catholics into christianity
-Printing made it possile to teach mass audiences
-Protestant Reformation |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Middle Ages |
-Dominance of the Catholic Church
-Invention of the Printing Press in 1456 |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Rome |
-Vast Empire
-Acta Diurna, 59 BC
*posted outcomes of trial on rocks or metal and let public view them
-Postal Roads |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| Earliest Writings |
1-Sumerians, 3000 BC
2-Phoenicians 1050 BC
3-Greeks, 1000 BC |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| HISTORY OUTLINE PART 2 |
-the penny press
-greenley
-day
-bennett
-the telegraph
-antebellum journalism
-the civil war |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| HISTORY OUTLINE PART 1 |
-the sumerians
-the phonicians
-the greeks
-the romans
-the middle ages
-guttenberg
-luther
-muddlamn
-mallett
-harris
-campbell
-james franklin
-ben franklin
-the stamp act
rivington
-the federalist papers
-early partisanship |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:40 GMT |
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| 20th Century |
-press starts to develop a conscience
-resistance to embrace resposibility
-resisitant to government intervention
-Henry Luce's commission study
*1930s powerful/innitiotive communicator
*founder of time magazine |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| Social Responsibility Theory of the press/ Libertarian theory of the press |
William Peter Hamilton quote.
What Liberalism is- information is knowledge and knowledge is power.
-John Milton contribution to freedom of expression theory.
-The first amendment involved this-freedom of the press-
-If not harmful to another, then no authority should restrict it.
-Truth has a unique power |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| Possible Solutions |
-New media reconnecting with their communitites
-serious stories focusing on issues that affect people's lives
-coveral all randes of the demographic spectrum
-owners need to be willing to accept lower profit margins |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| The Mean World Syndrome |
-George gerbner of University of Pen came up with this
- People think that life is much more dangerous that it really is.
-comes from depictions on TV, both in entertainment and news |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| What happened to serious news? |
-It is expensive to report and produce
-cheaper to have pundits ponfificating
-ignores research that indicated providing serious, comprehensive news builds audience-both in print and broadcast |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| The pressure to hype |
-Hype is a tendency to use sensationalism and titillation to boost ratings or build circulation.
-difficult to build audience loyalty this way
-need more serious, systematic approach to news coverage |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| The problems of targeted demographics |
-try to grow circulation in attractive areas only and News coverage tens to focus on those communities.
-Pooer communities with real social problems get ignored.
-younger readers are ignored-writing off future customers
-creation of an incomplete "map" |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| Principle |
-Journalist should keep the news comprehensive and in proportion.
-Cover whole communities
-Give a story only the attention it deserves |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| Industry Profit Margins |
Newspapers is at 16 |
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asherz1123 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:06 GMT |
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| Five requirements for a free and respossible press |
-A truthful, comprehensive, and itellifent account of the days events in a context which gives them meaning.
-A forum for the exchange of comment and criticism
-the projection of a representative picture of the constituent groups in the society
-Presentation and clarification of the goals and values of society
-full acess to the day's intelligence |
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