Phamous Philosophers
This famous quote from Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is an excellent summary of utilitarianism.
What is: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."?
[IGNORE -- SECOND HALF OF SEMESTER HERE] The Washington Post joined this lawsuit, as depicted in the Tom Hanks/Meryl Streep movie "The Post", after publishing reports from The Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times Co. v. U.S.?
This Chicago Cubs fan caught a foul ball — and a whole lot of hell from sports fans — during a game at Wrigley Field.
A rational decision-making process between two moral choices.
What are ethics?
This foundational sentence — which is carved on the outside of Umphrey Lee — establishes freedom of the press in the United States.
What is the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
This newspaper editor is known for saying, "You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
Asking about this hoppy hobby is a good way to distract Prof. Scudder from classwork.
What is homebrewing?
This Greek philosopher believed that our perception of truth was like watching shadows on a cave wall.
Who is Plato?
This journalist sued her employer after they barred her from covering issues of sexual assault.
Who is Felicia Sonmez?
BONUS: What were the three tweets she posted that we talked about?
This news magazine darkened OJ Simpson's skin tone of his mugshot.
What is TIME?
When the news seems to ignore cases of indigenous women who have gone missing, it can be a symptom of this unproven media tactic.
What is "missing white women syndrome"?
This is an ethical framework that deals with publishing information for the public good.
What is the need to know?
This early 20th-century newspaper editor doggedly covered the lynchings of Black men in the Jim Crow South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This fictional pirate captain tells us that codes, like a journalist's code of ethics, are "more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules."
Who is Capt. Hector Barbosa?
This philosopher is most associated with utilitarianism, and applied the concept to freedom of the press.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
The journalists in this case lied about their resume and employment history to get jobs at a national grocery chain, which led the court to rule they were trespassing.
What is Food Lion v. Capital Cities/ABC?
The author of "American Prison," who went undercover as a prison guard while not hiding his identity as a reporter.
Who is Shane Bauer?
This term, which refers to a kind of reporting popular in the early 20th century that did not strive for objective truth, comes from colorful ink that was used to print a comic strip in two New York papers.
What is yellow journalism?
These crime photos disproportionately depict people of color in news coverage.
What are arrest mugshots?
This young woman recorded the murder of George Floyd, which showed he did not suffer a "medical incident" as police initially said.
Who is Darnella Frazier?
This TV workout guru disappeared from public view later in life, leading to a podcast investigating his wellbeing.
Who is Richard Simmons?
This Areopagitica author advocated for an end to government censorship of the press — as long as you agreed with his religious beliefs.
Who is John Milton?
This case featured a photograph of an apartment where a girl died in a fire. Her mother sued the newspaper for invasion of privacy, although the courts found the paper had not invaded her privacy.
This journalist went undercover at a women's asylum to report on the horrible conditions for patients.
Who was Nellie Bly?
This sales concept helps us visualize how news organizations can "convert" audience members into paying customers.
What is a conversion funnel?
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or WELL, was the first one of these.
What are social media platforms?
This newspaper publisher believed journalists could be independent minded but opinionated.
Who is Horace Greeley.
According to The Social Dilemma documentary, "if you're not paying for the product, then..."
What is "...you are the product"?
This founding father wanted to include a written clause protecting freedom of the press in his draft of the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This NBC program hosted by Chris Hansen organized meet-ups between would-be pedophiles and actors pretending to be underage.
What is "To Catch a Predator"?
This reporter made the controversial decision to jump into the surf to help a sinking boat of refugees get to shore.
Who is Ed Bradley?
This Enlightenment movement concept guides the ethical aims of most journalists' today, and means a rational, replicable and observable definition of truth.
What is objectivity?
According to The Social Dilemma documentary, false news spreads this much faster than real news on Twitter (X).
What is six times faster?
A colonial American court found that newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger was this after he published true comments about the local governor.
What is not guilty?
This German craftsman brought movable type to Europe, but he did not invent it. Chinese printers had done so centuries earlier.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This philosopher is a Deontologist, which means they are concerned with the categorial imperative.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
These organizations objected over their unwilling participation in a college football algorithm, which they claimed was a conflict of interest.
What are the Associated Press and ESPN?
Journalist and abolitionist Horace Greeley created this character to point out hypocrisy with an objective approach to the issue of slavery during the Civil War.
What is "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways"?
These are the four main principles described in the Society for Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.
What are:
Seek Truth and Report It
Minimize Harm
Act Independently
Be Accountable and Transparent
This is a transactional relationship between a news consumer and a news producer, where the consumer pays for access to a regularly published source.
What is a subscription model?
This author wrote a stomach-churning book about meat packaging in Chicago, and was an ardent socialist.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
BONUS: What was the book called?
According to a NiemanLab analysis, cities with robust newsrooms have more of these.
What are mayoral candidates?