WTHS
News Values
First Amendment
Vocabulary
History
100

Tupelo High School's leading broadcast news source

What is WTHS?

100

Super Tuesday is Tuesday, March 3rd

What is timeliness?

100

Number of freedoms listed in the first amendment

What is 5?

100

The ability to be believed and trusted

What is credibility?

100

Television newscasts debuted in this year.

What is 1940?

200

The name of the segment that celebrates unique programs at Tupelo High School?

What is Discovering Tupelo?

200

A 42 year old zamboni driver steps up as the backup NHL goalie when two others get hurt and helps them win the game.

What is unusualness?

200

The right to express information, ideas and opinions free of government restrictions

What is freedom of speech?

200

Taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

What is plagiarism?

200

The invention during the Civil War that led to the inverted pyramid.

What is the telegraph?

300

This conference celebrates statewide journalists 

What is Mississippi Scholastic Press Association?

300

The country of Italy has now quarantined 10 cities because of the outbreak of the Corona virus.

What is significance?

300

The suppression of news, facts or parts of a book that are considered obscene or a threat to security.

What is censorship?

300

A published false statement that damages someone's reputation

What is libel?

300

The first televised presidential debate.

What is John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon?

400

The social media goal of WTHS on twitter

What is 2200?

400

A public farewall to Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gigi

What is prominence?

400

Three students wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war and were suspended.

What is Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent School District? (Students returned wearing black clothing for remainder of school year)

400

A false statement presented as a fact.

What is defamation?

400

Irresponsible journalism that focuses on exaggerated headlines and altered photography (19th century)

What is yellow journalism?

500

The year that WTHS first aired?

What is 1993?

500

Three National Merit Scholars named at THS

What is proximity?

500

A student's right to free speech differs from the first amendment

What is Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeir?

(1988)

500

When someone not on the publication/media staff requires to read or view material before it's published.

What is prior review?

500

The first newspaper in the American colonies in 1690

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