Media Law
Journalism History
Biases & Beyond
Local News
What to write?
100
This law allows the public and journalists to petition the government for information.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
100
This presidential candidate famously looked better on camera than his 1960 election opponent, potentially swaying the election and changing campaigning forever.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
This popular news network caters to a right-wing audience.
What is Fox News?
100
At the start of the twentieth century, every large and medium-size city, and even many small towns, had at least one of these. Now, 120 years later, many of them have disappeared.
What is a newspaper?
100
When figuring out what stories to cover, news outlets must first consider the wants of these people.
Who are readers/viewers?
200
This law governs what happens when a newspaper publishes something defamatory and false about a person.
What is libel law?
200
This term, popularized by Teddy Roosevelt, describes news coverage exposing corrupt business and government practices.
What is muckraking?
200
Most media outlets have this bias in common and tend to show it even more than political bias.
What is sensationalism bias?
200
Local television news outlets tend to cover this category of story frequently because it attracts viewers, but the extra coverage also causes people to overestimate how often it happens.
What is crime?
200
Media critics sometimes suggest this entity impacts news coverage, especially when they also control other businesses that may be the subject of story topics.
Who are corporate owners?
300
This 1964 Supreme Court case set the current standard for suing a newspaper publishing false and defamatory information.
What is New York Times v. Sullivan?
300
Sensationalist news coverage from the turn of the 20th century designed to attract readers and named for a popular cartoon was known as this.
What is yellow journalism?
300
This type of bias refers to the tendency to focus on individual's stories, perhaps missing a bigger picture.
What is personalization bias?
300
The decline of local newspapers has largely been due to the loss of this kind of income.
What is advertising revenue?
300
Tendency for media outlets to cover the same stories as everyone else is known as this.
What is pack journalism?
400
This specific type of protected political speech/press allowed Hustler Magazine to publish a racy ad featuring religious leader Jerry Falwell.
What is satire?
400
Many popular newspapers were known by this term between 1830 and 1860, when cheaper manufacturing led to lower cost for consumers.
What is the Penny Press?
400
Humans naturally have a tendency to pay more attention to and remember this kind of information, which helps explain why we don't see that many happy stories in the news.
What is negative information?
400
This former staple of local news is known as this.
What is a personal ad?
400
This saying indicates a tendency to cover more violent or gory stories.
What is "If it bleeds, it leads"?
500
This company faced off at the Supreme Court against the Federal Communications Commission in a famous 1969 "right of rebuttal" case.
Who is Red Lion Broadcasting?
500
He was known as the father of political cartoons.
Who is Thomas Nast?
500
When referring to this kind of bias, the textbook says "Partisan swaths of the public are both vulnerable to misinformation coming from their own side and less willing to believe corrections to that misinformation, especially when it comes from the other side."
What is confirmation bias?
500
This media conglomerate has purchased many of the country's local news stations, and sometimes requires them to read out scripts with a national political agenda.
What is Sinclair Broadcasting Group?
500
It is this type of person or narrative who tends to attract the most media coverage, despite not necessarily needing more.
What is familiar or popular?