Yellow Journalism
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The First Amendment
The Muckrakers
Propaganda and Misinformation
Curbs on Press/Speech Freedom
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What was the first newspaper considered part of the 'penny press?'
What is the The New York Sun? (Founded by Benjamin Day In New York in 1833.)
100
Term for opinion articles not written by newspaper staff but often on the page opposite the editorial page.
What is an Op-Ed?
100
The five freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment.
What are the right to freedom of religion, press, speech, peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
100
Muckracker who checked herself into a mental health asylum and then exposed conditions there.
Who is Nelly Bly?
100
The agency formed by Woodrow Wilson to drum up support for WWI through government-sponsored media.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
100
What organization was banned from White House press briefings this past spring because it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America outside the U.S.?
What is the Associated Press?
200
Which newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst was known for its role in the Spanish-American war?
What is the New York Journal?
200
The Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg are known colloquially as what kind of services?
What are wire services?
200
A form of censorship that gives the government permission to review contents of printed materials that may prevent publication.
What is prior restraint?
200
Muckracker whose decades-long exposes about lynching eventually led to a law more than a century after first exposing the practice.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
200
The person in charge of the Committee on Public Information.
Who was Robert Creel?
200
What news outlets have *not* settled with President Trump after he sued them?
What are the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
300
Hearst's biggest rival.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
300
Considered the "father" of journalism in the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
A law introduced by President John Adams that made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government.
What is the Sedition Act of 1798?
300
Author of "The Jungle," a novel exposing deplorable conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Groups of "trusted men" dispatched to persuade the public to support US military efforts in WWI.
Who were the "Four Minute Men?"
300
What companies that own news outlets *have* settled with President Trump after he sued them?
What are CBS (Paramount) and ABC (Disney)?
400
The cartoon character that symbolized the yellow journalism era.
Who is the Yellow Kid?
400
AI models that are trained with data including text, images and other media that learn patterns and structures to predict answers.
What is a large language model or LLM?
400
What 1964 Supreme Court ruling means public officials cannot successfully sue for libel unless they prove that a statement was made with "actual malice" or “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard?"
What is New York Times vs Sullivan
400
Muckracker who went after Nelson D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
The name for an original source of information, such as a government document or direct human interviewee.
What is a primary source?
400
What new policy did news outlets from Fox News and Newsmax to the New York Times and CNN refuse to sign?
A new Pentagon policy that prohibits reporters from obtaining information without explicit authorization from the Defense Department
500
What was the name of the ship whose explosion newspapers used to help spark the Spanish-American war?
What is the Maine?
500
This person coined the term "muckraker" in a 1906 speech.
President Theodore Roosevelt
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This amendment broadened the First Amendment's applicability to state governments.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
Muckracker who showed deplorable conditions in New York City through photographic epxoses.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
One technique to search if a phrase used by someone spreading suspected misinformation is true.
What is lateral reading?
500
What law did PresidentWoodrow Wilson enact that limited the press' ability to write critically about the government and its war policies?
What is the Sedition Act of 1918 (part of the Espionage Act.)?