The Boston News-Letter is considered to be the first of these in North America.
What is a newspaper.
100
His idea of funny is a chopped up snake urging an inter-colonial association against the Indians (and I don't mean Cleveland).
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
Though not from Texas, he said "don't mess with the First Amendment!"
Who is Hugo Black?
100
The title character of this movie was inspired by a reading of the Gettysburg Address.
What is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?
100
If I wanted to get everyone to join the crowd I would use this!
What is the bandwagon technique?
200
The earliest of these can be traced back to early drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci but they were grotesque, played to fear, were meant for well to do class, and often attacked prominent leaders.
What are political cartoons?
200
He has a University today, but back then all he wanted was to correct the Constitution so he wrote the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
200
Coming out of the red scare, this movie tackled topics considered taboo in the 1960's - not that way today! You don't even need consent.
What is Advise and Consent?
200
Often biased, it is the art of persuasion and generally an appeal to emotion.
What is propaganda?
300
A comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Pulitzer's New York World and later Hearst’s New York Journal and is famous for its connection to the coining of a colorful journalistic term.
What is the Yellow Kid?
300
Immense political and social power because the press can be used to shape societies while imparting news of note and commentary of interest and American usage emphasized the independence of the press brought about the adoption of this name.
What is the Fourth Estate?
300
He had never uttered a line on screen, but he does in this picture and even dances globally.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
400
The practice of overstating or magnifying a problem or a physical feature or habit such as a big nose, bushy eyebrows, large ears, baldness is one of the elements of Political cartoons.
What is Exaggeration?
400
In the War of the worlds, the effects of the media’s message was immediate and powerful, capable of causing significant behavioral change in humans almost like directly “injecting” into the “bloodstream” of a population like fluid from a syringe.
What is the hypodermic needle theory
500
He created cartoons that leads to the Democrat Donkey and Republican Elephant as party mascots.
Who is Thomas Nast?
500
A situation where a person perceives a big difference between his station in life and that of the bottom financial rung of society.