Name Date Date Due Wed., Sept 2 Thurs., Sept 3 Fri., Sept 4 Tues., Sept 8 Wed., Sept 9 Thurs., Sept 10 Fri., Sept 11 Assignments 1. Read p 211-213 2. Reading Questions 1-2 3. Terms 1-5 1. Read p213-225 2. Reading Questions 3-12 3. Terms 6-17 1. Read p225-233 2. Reading Questions 13-17 3. Terms 18-21 1. Letter to Congress DUE 2. Read Woll #21 related questions 3. Read Woll #22 related questions 1. Work Day on Media Bias Argumentative Essay 2. Read p233-237 3. Reading Questions 18-21 1. Ch. 7 Test Part. II Objectives 1. Describe the characteristics of the mass media today. 2. Explain the development of the print and broadcast media from a historical perspective. 3. Understand how news is found and reported by the media 4. Understand how the news media affect public opinion 5. Discuss what is meant by the concepts of policy agenda and policy entrepreneur and the media s importance to them. 6. Understand how the media affect the scope of government and the democratic process. Part III. Reading Questions Obj 1 1. Explain the purpose of a media event. 2. List the seven principles of news management as practiced in the Reagan White House. Obj 2 3. Explain two media techniques used most effectively by President Franklin Roosevelt. 4. What is meant by investigative journalism? 5. Explain the significance of the era of yellow journalism, as it relates to the print media. 6. Explain how television affected the political career of Richard Nixon. 7. What effect did television have on the war in Vietnam? 8. Explain three ways in which the Federal Communications Commission has regulated the airwaves. 9. What impact has cable TV had on news reporting? 10. List four finding of the Columbia University s Project for Excellence in Journalism on cable news programming. 11. What makes news reporting on the Internet particularly different than news reporting on television? 12. Explain two consequences of private control of the media in the United States. Obj 3 13. Where does news come from? 14. What is meant by a sound bite and what does it tell us about news coverage?
Obj 4 Obj 5 Obj 6 15. Explain how the news media tend to be biased. 16. In the experiments by Shanto Iyengar and Donald Kinder, what effect did manipulating TV stories have on viewers? 17. Give examples of how the media have had an effect on how the public evaluates specific events. 18. Define the term policy agenda. 19. List five items in the policy entrepreneurs arsenal of weapons. 20. How do the media act as a watchdog? 21. What is the difference between the information society and the informed society? Part IV. Terms/Identification 1. high-tech politics 2. mass media 3. media events 4. Big three networks 5. Associated Press - 6. press conference 7. investigative journalism 8. print media
9. broadcast media 10. yellow journalism 11. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 12. Equal time rule 13. right of reply rule 14. Fairness Doctrine - 15. narrowcasting 16. CSPAN - 17. chains - 18. beats
19. trial balloons 20. sound bites 21. talking head 22. policy agenda 23. policy entrepreneurs 24. Freedom of Information Act (1974) 25. off-the-record 26. on the record 27. on background 28. on deep background
Woll #21 Oliver Wendell Holmes The Need to Maintain a Free Marketplace of Ideas Summarize the clear and present danger test: Multiple Choice Questions 1. In Abrams v. United States, Justice Holmes: a. stressed the need for government o have wide latitude to regulate speech and press during both wartime and peacetime. b. Modified his original clear and present danger standard in Schenk v. United States. c. States that government should not regulate speech under any circumstances. d. Directly overturned Schenck v. United States. Woll #22 New York Times v. Sullivan Multiple Choice Questions 1. To win a libel case, a public official must prove that the libel a. undermines national security b. is false c. was made with reckless disregard of the truth or malicious intent d. cause monetary damages. 2. The Court s ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan: a. made it impossible for public officials to win libel suits. b. Supported reckless criticism of public officials c. Changed the common law of libel d. Undermined freedom of the press