Media
Persuasion
Newsworthy
Feature Article
Bias
100
The various means of mass communication in our society including radio, television, magazines, newspapers and internet
What is media?
100
When you are trying to convince someone of something you are trying to
What is persuade them
100
What are the three levels of news (remember the target visual)
What is local, national, and international
100
An article that has both facts and opinions
What is a feature article
100
Name something that someone could be biased about
What is race, gender, class, religion, etc.
200
Name one type of print media
What is newspapers or magazines
200
Name one type of persuasion technique
What is evidence, attacks, emotive language, ancedotes, tone, generalization, rhetorical questions, alliteration, bias
200
Name one thing that makes an issue newsworthy
What is timeliness, impact, prominence, proximity, conflict, the unusual, currency, necessity
200
Name one aspect of a feature article
What is headline, picture, columns, facts, byline, quotes
200
There are a few types of bias, name one.
What is advertising bias, corporate bias, mainstream bias, sensationalism, concision bias, generalizations
300
Name two types of electronic media
What are tvs, radios, social media
300
The deliberate use of strong words to play on the readers feelings
What is emotive language
300
Events geographically or emotionally close to people
What is proximity
300
A sentence that is bold in the article and stands out on the page
What is a pull quote
300
Bias in favour of the exceptional over the ordinary. Giving the impression that rare events are more common than common events.
What is sensationalism
400
Name one social media platform
What is facebook, twitter, snap chat, etc
400
Daily double: Explain what ethos, pathos and logos mean and what you use them for
What is ethics, emotions and logic used for persuasion
400
Events including well-known people or institutions
What is prominence
400
The first sentence of the article that grabs the readers attention
What is a hook
400
What is concision bias and why is it dangerous?
What is a tendency to report views that can be summarized succinctly, leaves out potential information.
500
Daily double! What is one thing that the media does?
What is informs and entertains
500
Questions that the reader asks to which the answer is already obvious
What is rhetorical question
500
When a reporter gives us a certain view of a story (hint: it's not bias)
What is an angle
500
The end of the article that ties everything together
What is the kicker
500
Where do we learn bias from?
What is friends, family, society
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