The Basics
Building on the Basics
To the Courts!
Greg Moore
Potpourri
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The primary purpose of journalism.
What is "to provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing"?
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Said, "...citizens are like theatergoers who 'arrive in the middle of the third act and leave before the first curtain, staying just long enough to decide who is the hero and who is the villain."
Who is Walter Lippmann?
100
Pentagon Papers (1971).
What is New York Times Co. vs. United States.
100
This method for structuring a news story is dead. (Deader than a Dodo bird).
What is the inverted pyramid?
100
The comedic clip we watched on global warming, where Bill Nye had dozens of scientists come in to help argue that global warming was a real problem was used to demonstrate the need for _________ in reporting?
What is balance.
200
The El Chapo (Sean Penn) story was considered journalism.
What is false?
200
Money is speech (2010).
What is Citizens United vs. FEC.
200
The Denver Post no longer views itself as a newspaper, but as a...
What is multimedia news organization.
200
True or false: Shows like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reily could generally be considered journalism?
What is false.
300
Journalism's first obligation is to the...?
What is truth.
300
The theory that includes the "involved public", the "interested public", and the "uninterested public".
What is the theory of the interlocking public.
300
State cannot compel speech (1943).
What is West Virginia State Board of Ed.vs. Barnette.
300
True or False: Newsrooms have shrunk over the past couple of decades?
What is true. Largely due to an emphasis on profits.
300
The act of suppressing information from being published or broadcast because of a belief that it might be libelous or harmful.
What is prior restraint?
400
Journalism's first loyalty is to...
What is the citizens?
400
The type of truth that journalism is after (a practical form of truth).
What is functional truth?
400
Speech cannot incite imminent violence (1969).
What is Brandenburg v. Ohio.
400
This role of journalism brings to readers parts of the world and their communities that they don't know about.
What is the window on the world role. (There is also a "mirror" role).
400
Rights that are not dependent on laws and customs, but that are universal and inalienable (from nature, or from God).
What are natural rights?
500
The relationship between journalism and democracy.
What is (answers vary).
500
The world we live in now, where, in politics, feelings are beginning to trump facts, and many people no longer care about, or remember the truth.
What is a Post-Truth World?
500
True or false: The bigger the lie, the more important it is to publish.
What is true. (Pentagon Papers).
500
I drafted the First Amendment.
Who is James Madison?
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