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Journalism
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Chapter 1: History of American Media
Partisan press – early American newspapers that aligned themselves with a political party
Penny press – from mid-19th century, papers filled with news, read by a mass audience, including ads, and sold for a penny
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Wire service – service providing, for a fee, news from around the world to publications subscribing to it. Ex. United Press (UP) & Associated Press (AP)
Yellow journalism – brand of journalism with hoaxes, altered photos, screaming headlines, frauds, & endless promotions of the newspapers themselves
Why?
to boost circulation
Modern examples?
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Muckraking - journalism (particularly magazines) that crusades for social justice or to expose wrongdoingEx. Status of blacks, child labor, patent
medicine companies, meat-packing ind.Ex. McClure’s attacked big business
Global village – concept (of Marshall McFuban) that the world has become a more tightly interrelated community because of simultaneous broadcasting
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“shock jocks” – radio disk jockeys who entertain by saying outrageous, often vulgar or offensive, things about people or situations
Ex. Howard Stern
Computer-assisted reporting (CAR) – databases, crime logs, internet, bulletin boards, listservs, etc.
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1st published newspaper: Publick Occurrences, Boston, 1690, Benjamin Harris
What happened to it?not approved by British authority; only one publication
1st continuously published newspaper?Boston News-Letter, John Campbell,
1704Had government’s approval (very
closely supervised)
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John Peter Zenger?
published NY Weekly Journal which acted as a voice giving rise to Whigs and printed articles criticizing Gov. Wm. Gosby
charged with seditious libel
(stirring up rebellion)
(damaging false statements)
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1st daily newspaper: Pennsylvania Evening Post, 1783
Early newspaper stories: little actual news; essays, editorials, ads (opinion pieces)
Civil War caused stories to be short (inverted pyramid style) – telegraphs (wire service) aided transport of info
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1st radio newscast: Wilson-Hughes presidential election results
3 major TV networks?
NBC, CBS, ABC by 1945
1st war covered by TV?
Vietnam
“Breaking story events”?
NO!!!
background info, possible causes, in- depth, trends, lifestyles, etc.