QUIZZES ARE TO BE COMPLETED ON ONE'S OWN-NOT COLLABORATIVELY, UNLESS OTHERWISE DIRECTED.
Quiz 5: Chapter 9-11-Short Answer
1. How is journalism modern cartography?
2. Describe the principle of the "naked body and the guitar."
3. Describe the Jayson Blair scandal and its ramifications/outcomes for the field of journalism.
4. Describe how journalist Carol Marin exercised conscience while anchor at WMAQ in Chicago.
5. Give three specific examples BBC initiatives that encourage citizen involvement with the news.
6. List and explain the six components of the "Citizen's Bill of Rights."
Quiz 4: Chapters 7-8-Short Answer
1. Describe the Cody Shearer/Chris Matthews incident, and explain why it is important to the field of journalism.
2. What is the "Argument Culture?"
3. Describe the relationship between the storytelling and information continuum.
4. Name the three reasons that "attracting audiences merely by being engaging will fail as a business strategy for journalism" (194).
Quiz 3: Chapter 5-6 Reading Quiz-Short Answer
1. Describe the controversy involving the hiring of William Safire at the Times and discuss how it was resolved.
2. What are the three criteria Maggie Gallagher said journalists should follow and did she follow them?
3. Describe the controversy surrounding George Will and Conrad Black.
4. Who is Rupert Murdoch?
5. What are the characteristics of "The Journalism of Affirmation?"
6. What is the most coveted award in American Journalism and what was the new reporting category established in 1964?
7. What are the three main forms of this new (in 1964) kind of reporting?
8. What did Bob Woodward say about fulfilling the watchdog principle responsibly?
9. The principle that sates "Journalists must serve as an independent monitor of power" (140) is often misunderstood to mean what? (Hint-short quote needed.)
10. The number of people who believe that press criticism about the military weakens the nation's defense rose from 28% in 1985 to what percent in 2005?
Quiz 2: Chapter 4-Short Answer
1. What are the differences between journalism, propaganda, entertainment, and fiction?
2. What are some of the obstacles to objectivity?
3. What errors did several papers make regarding Al Gore?
4. What is the "voice of God" approach?
5. What does "humility" mean when it comes to being a journalist?
6. Who is David Protess?
7. What does Tom French do to ensure accuracy in his stories?
8. What is the Valerie Plame scandal and how was Judith Miller involved?
Quiz 1: Chapters 2-3 Quiz-Short Answer
1. Journalism’s first obligation is to do what?
2. Why is this obligation problematic?
3. Why are balance and fairness insufficient substitutes for journalism’s first obligation?
4. Who do the media work for?
5. How did the New York Times set itself apart (according to Chapter 3) from Hearst’s and Pulitzer’s papers?
6. Describe the problem of the “Isolated journalist/ism.”
7. What’s the difference between a citizen and a customer?
8. What’s the journalistic wall?
9. What’s an MBO and why is it problematic?
10. What are the five characteristics of successful news/business relationships?
Quiz 5: Chapter 9-11-Short Answer
1. How is journalism modern cartography?
2. Describe the principle of the "naked body and the guitar."
3. Describe the Jayson Blair scandal and its ramifications/outcomes for the field of journalism.
4. Describe how journalist Carol Marin exercised conscience while anchor at WMAQ in Chicago.
5. Give three specific examples BBC initiatives that encourage citizen involvement with the news.
6. List and explain the six components of the "Citizen's Bill of Rights."
Quiz 4: Chapters 7-8-Short Answer
1. Describe the Cody Shearer/Chris Matthews incident, and explain why it is important to the field of journalism.
2. What is the "Argument Culture?"
3. Describe the relationship between the storytelling and information continuum.
4. Name the three reasons that "attracting audiences merely by being engaging will fail as a business strategy for journalism" (194).
Quiz 3: Chapter 5-6 Reading Quiz-Short Answer
1. Describe the controversy involving the hiring of William Safire at the Times and discuss how it was resolved.
2. What are the three criteria Maggie Gallagher said journalists should follow and did she follow them?
3. Describe the controversy surrounding George Will and Conrad Black.
4. Who is Rupert Murdoch?
5. What are the characteristics of "The Journalism of Affirmation?"
6. What is the most coveted award in American Journalism and what was the new reporting category established in 1964?
7. What are the three main forms of this new (in 1964) kind of reporting?
8. What did Bob Woodward say about fulfilling the watchdog principle responsibly?
9. The principle that sates "Journalists must serve as an independent monitor of power" (140) is often misunderstood to mean what? (Hint-short quote needed.)
10. The number of people who believe that press criticism about the military weakens the nation's defense rose from 28% in 1985 to what percent in 2005?
Quiz 2: Chapter 4-Short Answer
1. What are the differences between journalism, propaganda, entertainment, and fiction?
2. What are some of the obstacles to objectivity?
3. What errors did several papers make regarding Al Gore?
4. What is the "voice of God" approach?
5. What does "humility" mean when it comes to being a journalist?
6. Who is David Protess?
7. What does Tom French do to ensure accuracy in his stories?
8. What is the Valerie Plame scandal and how was Judith Miller involved?
Quiz 1: Chapters 2-3 Quiz-Short Answer
1. Journalism’s first obligation is to do what?
2. Why is this obligation problematic?
3. Why are balance and fairness insufficient substitutes for journalism’s first obligation?
4. Who do the media work for?
5. How did the New York Times set itself apart (according to Chapter 3) from Hearst’s and Pulitzer’s papers?
6. Describe the problem of the “Isolated journalist/ism.”
7. What’s the difference between a citizen and a customer?
8. What’s the journalistic wall?
9. What’s an MBO and why is it problematic?
10. What are the five characteristics of successful news/business relationships?