Through the Decades
Famous Journalists
Laws and Amendments
Rhetorical Appeals
Bonus
100

In 1867 this was invented and finally made it where we no longer had to hand write news stories. 

What is typewriter

100

This writer and author of Silent Spring brought attention to the dangers of pesticides and helped inspire the environmental movement. 

Who is Rachel Carson?

100

This amendment gives us freedom of the press.  

What is the 1st amendment?

100

This type of appeal leans to reasoning and sound logic

What is logos?

100

This is a spoken false statement designed to damage someone's reputation.

What is slander

200

This concept of sensational headlines and altered photos reached a peak in 1898.

What is yellow journalism?

200

This writer and reporter was a pioneer in her field and gained new perspectives when she went undercover in a mental hospital to investigate conditions there. 

Who is Nellie Bly?

200

Even though we have freedom of speech, you still cannot yell this in a crowded theater.

What is fire?

200

This type of appeal leans to credibility and character

What is ethos?

200

This media mogul and inspiration for Citizen Kane truly loved his human interest stories.

Who is William Randolph Hurst?

300

This radio station first broadcast its first regular radio broadcast in 1920.

What is KDKA- Pittsburgh?

300

This reporter was known for being the most respected journalist of his time when he anchored the CBS evening news from 1962-1981

Who is Walter Cronkite?

300

This is a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation.

What is libel?

300

This type of appeal leans on emotions.

What is pathos?

300

This is one of the highest honors in journalism.

What is the Pulitzer prize?

400

This man invented the printing press and forever changed how information was distributed to the masses.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

400

This novelist and journalist reported on WWI and gave us such classics as "The Old Man and the Sea."

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

400

This case ruled that it is ok to wear black armbands to protest war. 

What is Tinker vs. DesMoines?

400

9 out of 10 dentists recommend CREST toothpaste is an example of this appeal.  

What is Logos?

400

In 1765 the British tried implementing this. It did not go well.  

What is the stamp act?

500

This was America's first published newspaper and was published in 1690.

What is Publick Occurrences?

500

This influential television and radio journalist covered the bombing of London, the liberation of Buchenwald, and helped expose Sen. Joseph McCarthy and, in the 1960 documentary “Harvest of Shame,” the plight of American farm workers.

Who is Edward R. Murrow?

500

Laws tell us what we can do. Ethics tells us this.

What is what we should do ?

500

The ASPCA commercials with the sad dogs and cats and Sarah McLaughlin playing in the background is an example of this appeal.

What is Pathos?

500

In 2007, this apple product came out forever changing the way we communicate and get information. 

What is the iphone?

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