Chapter 14

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Which of the following is not one of the techniques outlined by NBC news president Reuven Frank in 1963 as an effective way to tell a news story?
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A story should include colorful descriptions that may or may not be factual.
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Which of the following is not one of the basic criteria of newsworthiness?
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Consensus
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Based on the criteria a local broadcaster would use to determine newsworthiness, which of the following stories would most likely be covered?
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Two local city council members get into a heated argument over building a new statue to honor a local celebrity.
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One of the main reasons newspaper organizations started wanting their reporters to write in a neutral, detached style was that ______.
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it would alienate fewer potential subscribers and advertisers
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Historically, "objectivity" became valuable for newspapers and journalists because ______.
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offending the smallest number of people meant earning the largest profit
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Critics of CNN say it too often engages in ethnocentrism because ______.
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it tells international stories from a largely American point of view
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Herbert Gans studied the newsroom cultures of CBS, NBC, Newsweek, and Time during the 1970s. Which of the following is not one of the enduring values he identified within these newsroom cultures?
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A preference for large-scale, urban settings—a focus on cities rather than rural communities
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According to the textbook, which of the following ideas developed into an underlying, subjective value in the culture of American journalism?
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All of the options are correct.
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One problem with journalists assuming the underlying value of responsible capitalism is that ______.
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it can lead to a naïve belief that businesses compete to increase the prosperity of all instead of maximizing their own profits
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The value of favoring the small over the large and the rural over the urban is called ______.
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small-town pastoralism
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Which of the following would be okay for a journalist to accept from a news source and still avoid a conflict of interest?
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None of the options is correct.
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Which of the following could help a journalist resolve a moral or ethical dilemma?
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All of the options are correct.
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The textbook suggests that the best way for journalists to reach ethical decisions might be ______.
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taking the time to work through several critical thinking steps
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The textbook uses the news coverage of urban illegal drug problems as an example of ______.
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how news coverage can fail to offer strong continuing coverage of long-term social problems
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According to the textbook, which of the following is not characteristic of modern journalism?
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It provides detailed interpretation and analysis of news events.
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For most journalists, the bottom line is ______.
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Get the story"
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Scoop behavior, in which reporters stake out a house or chase celebrities, is called______.
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. herd journalism
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Journalism critics say the quest for balance presents some problems, including ______.
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All of the options are correct.
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______ refers to the moment when the reporter nabs the wrongdoer.
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gotcha story
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Why have local TV newscasts developed a similar look since the 1970s?
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Stations hired news consultants, who advised them to buy national prepackaged formats.
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Which of the following did not result from hiring television news consultants?
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Local news put its issues-oriented reporting at the forefront, often starting newscasts with those stories.
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Ad-libbed or scripted banter that goes on among local news anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports reporters before and after news reports is called ______.
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happy talk
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The sound bite in a TV news report is the equivalent of a ______ in a newspaper story.
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quote
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Which of the following is true about sound bites?
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They are usually quite brief and can come from an expert, a celebrity, a victim, or a person on the street.
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The growing trend of twenty-four-hour cable news stations filling time with "talking head" pundits ______.
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None of the above options is correct.
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Which of the following is true about the growing use of "talking head" pundits on cable news networks?
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All of the options are correct.
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Which of the following is not a change the Internet has wrought upon traditional journalism?
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E-mail interviews allow journalists to get more spontaneity out of interview subjects.
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Tweeting and blogging are ______.
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ecoming more and more required duties for journalists
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While the Internet has provided many new tools for journalists, what is a potential Internet pitfall for reporters?
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The enormous amount of information available on databases and other sites can keep reporters at their desks rather than out in the community finding stories and cultivating sources.
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A journalist who practices an informational or modern model approach to journalism would most likely be inclined to focus a story about a crime spree around ______.
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Presenting official comments and statistics in a neutral manner
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Which of the following is a characteristic of public journalism?
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Journalists not only criticize communities but try to improve them.
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In which way does the current trend toward public journalism differ from modern journalism?
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It moves away from just telling the news to becoming involved in community life.
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Supporters of public journalism argue that insisting journalists are "value-neutral" ______.
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actually results in less credibility with the public
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Which of the following is not true about "fake" news programs such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report?
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They are simply about telling jokes and never try to express any larger truth.
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Which of the following is a basic tenet, or belief, of conventional journalism?
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A free press should question the government and get both sides of a story.