Ben Lohman Cmst 180 Exam #3

Continuing characters in a new, usually dilemmatic situation every week

Low-budget audience builders attracting big-bucks advertisers

Propaganda

U.S. government requirement from 1949 to 1987 that broadcast presentations had to include both sides on competing public issues

Documentaries that seek to influence their viewers

Producer and Director of point-of-view documentaries

Short episode of story line created for downloading to Internet TV or hand-held devices

Viewer controlled access to content at anytime

Digital recording and playback device for television

Ability of viewer to change when they access programming

Some chains overextended financially, and bankruptcies would follow

It allowed them to not have to build their schedules around the shows they want to watch

First to to transmit message through air

Became the first U.S. licensed commercial station (1920)

1. Private ownership

2. Entertainment thrust to programming

3. Economic foundation based on selling time to advertisers who wanted to reach large audiences

21 year old who worked at a Marconi Room. Became famous for hearing and reporting the news of the Titanic and its survivors

He made the radio a widely-known concept

David Sarnoff and RCA found it

Philo Farnsworth

Through Rock-n-Roll stations

He developed the Top 40 format, featuring only top hits, and rotating them throughout the day's broadcasting

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Satellite Radios

Although the only two satellite radio companies merged, causing the satellite radio field to be a monopoly at the moment, the companies merged, because they would both go out of business if they did not. Prior to the merge, they were both losing money.

He was a broadcaster who caused a panic among citizens due to the fact that the story-telling of an alien invasion was formatted like a news report. This caused confusion and caused people to react in a mass panic.

The story-telling was conveyed like breaking news, and music was played, then it cut back to the story, then music was played again.

ABC, CBS, NBC

FCC chair who called television a "vast wasteland"

Television network for noncommercial over-air stations

Transmitters are mounted on ridges, mountaintops, skyscrapers, or tall buildings to extend their signals as far as possible

Created for towns that couldn't get reception due to the mountaintops blocking the signal; transmitter was put on top of the mountain, and a cable strung down to each house for signal

Early local cable TV systems

Used orbiting satellite to relay exclusive programs to local cable systems in 1975

First 24-hour TV news service

A company that owns several local cable TV delivery units in different, usually far-flung, communities

Satellite-direct companies (DirecTV is the larger)

Leader of Apple computer who engineered the "digital hub"

Three-step developmental model for stages of a new media-centric lifestyle: Computer Revolution, Internet Revolution, Digital Lifestyle

An overarching term for post-1980 fundamental changes triggered by digital technology

Near-universal, low-cost, accessible and virtually instant communication, albeit mostly text; roughly 1994-2000

Personal and hand-held computers become a centerpiece of outgoing and incoming communication

Early business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content

Once-dominant internet service provider

Built AOL into media giant with walled-garden model

Software wunderkind who designed pioneer browser Netscape

Area near San Francisco noted for computing and electronics industries

First of browsers

Did not have subscription fees

Computer program that scours the web to create an index of sites

Google-operating system for smartphones

Major search engine and internet services company

David Filo and Jerry Yang

Economic collapse of most investments in internet commerce in 2000

99% relies on advertising

Military Network The Pentagon built for military contractors and universities doing military research to exchange information.

No

A journal-like web site with continuing narrative, generally personal in nature, on a narrow subject; (short for web log)

Internet Messages that originate with an individual to communicate directly with a mass audience

Used his blog to continually critique U.S. Senate Trent for racist comments. This caused other bloggers to join in. This issue appeared on NBC, leading Trent to apologize and his Senate colleagues voting him out as Majority Leader

His blog propelled the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky issue into a national scandal

Enabled anyone with a computer and web access to become a mass communicator

FaceSmash

A website where Mark Zuckerberg coded by posting pictures of women from sorority houses that he raided. Although it got shut down, he saw the enthusiasm and popularity that went into it.

Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Pierre Omidyar

eBay

Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos

Book Retail

iTunes offered music nonphysically

Matching advertisers with potential customers with relative precision

To identify cohorts of potential customers

Using personal information and patterns in activities to match advertisements with potential customers

A report on change

A ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages

Early Penny Press publisher; founder of New York Herald 1835

He reported more recent news first before than they did

A specific subject or field that a news reporter covers as a specialty, like a police beat, a science beat

Concept that emphasizes event-based reporting on deadline

Delivered by telegraph

Concept in journalism that news should be gathered and told value-free

A line identifying the reporter or writer; usually atop an article

-Compelling Events

-Deadline-Driven

-Objectivity

-Veiling the Reporter

-Sourcing

Bennett Model Component; report as events unfold

-Superficiality (Reporters opted for easy stories with facts that were readily available)

-Deadline Haste (Pressure undermines quality)

-Dullness (Mindless facts-only)

-Missed Trends (Due to the focus on the Bennett Model, important and history-changing events go unreported)

-Questions Unasked (Reporters only went to officials for information, which were easily accessible, rather than witnesses)

-Manipulation (Some used slow days for news reporting to get more publicity)

U.S. Senator from Wisconsin; fueled anti-communist

CBS TV reporter who confronted McCarthy on demagoguery (appealing on people's emotions and prejudice rather than their rational side)

Philosopher who issued a report that called for news media to be socially responsible

Recommended reforms to news practices to emphasize social responsibility

Published Publick Occurrences, first colonial newspaper,1690; scandalized Puritan sensitivities by alleging that the King of France had dallied with his son's wife

Printed first successful penny paper

Emphasized human interest in newspapers; later moved sensationalism to greater heights

Vowed to "out-Pulitzer" Pulitzer in sensationalism

Sensationalized news accounts

The use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement.

His journalism textbook advocated people to not just relay information, but rather make sense of it.

Concluded that journalists have mainstream values

Seeing things on the basis of personal experience and values

The news media role to monitor the performance of government and other institutions of society

Space for news in a newspaper after ads are inserted; time in a newscast for news after ads

Significance of events worth covering varies from day to day (Example: An event is more valuable to report on Sunday than Thursday)

Available staff resources to cover news is affected by how many are in the right place at the right time

News organization second-guessing competition in deciding coverage

Exercise news judgment, deciding what most deserves to be told and how.

News Sites that regurgitate news compiled from elsewhere or offer pass-through links to other sources

E-messages with links to news that users request based on key search words

Washington Poster reporter who dug up the Watergate Scandal

Aided Carl Berstein in the Watergate revelation

Enterprise reporting that reveals new information, often startling; most often these are stories that official sources would rather not have told

Geared to satisfy audience's information wants, not needs