HISTORY
THIS SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS FROM THE SUMERIANS IS THE OLDEST FORM OF WRITING KNOWN TO HUMAN CIVILIZATION.
WHAT IS CUNEIFORM?
DANIEL HALLIN IMAGINED TOPICS OF MEDIA COVERAGE AS THIS BREAKFAST PASTRY.
WHAT IS A DONUT?
"...THE TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, MUST STOP THE OPEN & OBVIOUS HOSTILITY & REPORT THE TRUTH HONESTLY AND FAIRLY."
WHO IS DONALD J. TRUMP?
THIS WHIP NEWS DIRECTOR IS THE ONLY GUEST LECTURER TO ADDRESS THIS CLASS SO FAR THIS SEMESTER.
WHO IS SIDNEY ROCHINIK?
THE ERA OF YELLOW JOURNALISM GETS ITS NAME FROM A RECURRING CHARACTER IN THIS SECTION OF NEW YORK CITY'S TWO LARGEST GILDED-AGE NEWSPAPERS.
WHAT IS THE COMICS SECTION?
A "RANDOM BROWN UNDERGRAD" HAS SHARP DISAGREEMENTS WITH THE PUBLISHER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REGARDING THIS JOURNALISTIC PRINCIPLE.
WHAT IS OBJECTIVITY?
“YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE GRADUATING IN AN AMERICA FIGHTING A MISBEGOTTEN WAR IN A FOREIGN LAND. YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE GRADUATING INTO A WORLD WHERE WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS, BE IT THE RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS TO START A NEW LIFE, THE RIGHT OF GAYS TO MARRY OR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN TO CHOOSE.”
WHO IS A.G. SULZBERGER?
THE VALENTINE'S DAY NEWS QUIZ NOTES THAT EMIL BOVE, AN OFFICIAL IN THIS AGENCY, ORDERED CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST NEW YORK'S MAYOR DROPPED.
WHAT IS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?
THE SHARE OF AMERICANS WHO TOLD GALLUP THEY DIDN'T TRUST THE MEDIA AT ALL FIRST SURPASSED THOSE WHO TRUSTED THEM A GREAT DEAL IN THIS YEAR.
WHAT IS 2022?
KANYE WEST SAYS THE GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERS AIDS IN 2006's "HEARD 'EM SAY," REPEATING CLAIMS FROM THIS COLD WAR-ERA DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN.
WHAT IS "OPERATION INFEKTION"?
"BUT OUR MAN LIVED IN AN EDEN, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS UNSPOILED, BUT BECAUSE HE HADN'T CONSIDERED ANY OTHER STATE OF AFFAIRS."
WHO IS JOSEPH BERNSTEIN?
A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH LED THIS GROUP OF RAILROAD WORKERS, ONE OF WHOM WAS SLAPPED BY A DRUNK KENTUCKY SENATOR.
WHO WERE THE PULLMAN PORTERS?
TIME ZONES AND AP STYLE DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THESE OFTEN-DEADLY INCIDENTS.
WHAT ARE TRAIN CRASHES?
NEWS OUTLETS STRUNG TOGETHER RAMBLING LINES FROM AN OVAL OFFICE PRESSER ABOUT STRANDED ASTRONAUTS, MAKING THEM MORE COHERENT THAN THEY ACTUALLY WERE --- A PRACTICE PARKER MALLOY DENOUNCED AS THIS.
WHAT IS SANEWASHING?
"THERE CAN BE NO HIGHER LAW IN JOURNALISM THAN TO TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL."
WHO IS WALTER LIPPMANN?
IN 1894, THE NEW YORK TIMES LABELLED THIS CRUSADING ANTI-LYNCHING REPORTER A "SLANDEROUS AND NASTY-MINDED NEGRESS."
WHO IS IDA. B. WELLS?
THIS NASHVILLE-BASED FINANCE GURU IS NOW AMERICA'S MOST-LISTENED-TO RADIO HOST --- FOUR YEARS AFTER RUSH LIMBAUGH'S DEATH LEFT THE TOP SPOT VACANT.
WHO IS DAVE RAMSEY?
YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW YOU IS THIS.
WHAT IS PARASOCIAL?
"WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR." BUT WITH A NUMBER OF NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS.
WHO IS ADOLPH W. OCHS?
THIS FORMER TEMPLE NEWS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WAS ONE OF 12 CONTRIBUTORS TO A PIECE ABOUT THE NORTHEAST PLANE CRASH.
WHO IS FALLON ROTH?