Animals
What's water?
What is the media – news / entertainment / images / advertising & public relation efforts at cognitive manipulation that surrounds and affects use by creating who we are and our world views.
The absence of representation, or underrepresentation, of some group of people in the media.
What is Symbolic Annihilation?
An example is: A tornado caved in the roof of a church crowded with Palm Sunday worshipers, killing 17 people and injuring at least 90. Eighteen other people died as twisters and violent thunderstorms tore through the Southeast.
What is and example of traditional, inverted pyramid journalism?
This is essential to establishing scenes
What is description – specificity of concrete detail?
Cat jumping at sight of elongated squash.
What is the Need for News Built Into Our DNA
The machine profiled in ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’ which chronicles the end of “hot type” at The New York Times — and the introduction of computers into the printing process.
What is the linotype machine in which an operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles matrices, which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, of type metal in a process known as hot metal typesetting.
And example is: This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. This is a place where the song "Jesus Loves Me" has rocked generations to sleep, and heaven is not a concept, but a destination.
What is an example of literary journalism
Through this tool, the journalist is not only reporting words, but defining and establishing character, as well as involving the reader.
What is dialogue?
Greeting man on horse says to another man on horse at meeting on road.
What is the greeting "What news?"
What is the message of Rashomon?
What is falsity is not inevitable, and instead, given adequate information, we are able to distinguish fiction from fact?
A literary journalist is influenced by the tools of the fictionists but still maintains what?
What are notions about journalistic fact and reporting.
Intimate details of environment and characters.
What are Status Details. Just as important as the characters and the events, are the surroundings, specifically what people surround themselves with. Wolfe describes these items as the tools for a “social autopsy,” so we can see people as they see themselves. These are essential to creating non-flat characters with dimensions.
dimensions.
Humans bent over their phones in this looking down world.
What is the Need for News Built Into Our DNA
And effect that occurs when the same event is given contradictory interpretations by different individuals involved.
What is the Rashomon Effect?
A way of building a story block by block.
What is scene by scene construction?
And example of this is: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” — Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
What is rhythm and pacing?
Hutchins Hapgood said this person was important to the story.
What is the Expressive Individual or Expressive Personality?
The key to good journalism regarding the synoptic method.
What is sourcing?
A way of connecting the chaos of any story into a uniform whole.
What is the narrative thread or arc?
It “is basically a fancy term for whatever it is you use to hold all of the pieces of your story together.”
What is a narrative thread?