Journalism History And Media Law
This is a quiz about journalism history and the people who are important in the history of journalism in America.
- 1.What is muckracking?
- A.
Practice of finding the best stories to print from a particular day of news
- B.
Movement to limit the power of the President
- C.
Exposing unfair and dangerous practices in industries
- D.
Sensational journalism not always based in truth
- 2.Yellow journalism can be defined as:
- A.
Practice of finding the best stories to print from a particular day of news
- B.
Movement to limit the power of the President
- C.
Exposing unfair and dangerous practices in industries
- D.
Sensational journalism not always based in truth
- 3.Which of the following is a wire service?
- A.
USA Today
- B.
New York Times
- C.
Western Telegraph
- D.
Associated Press
- 4.What is the Penny Press?
- A.
Newspaper in Texas that charged a small fee for its newspaper
- B.
Press made out of copper
- C.
Founded by Benjamin Day; papers cost a penny
- D.
Cost of newspapers in major cities today
- 5.What was important about the John Peter Zenger trial?
- A.
Established the Partisan press
- B.
Established that truth is a defense in libel cases
- C.
Established freedom of the press
- D.
Won Zenger a large sum of money
- 6.Who was Nellie Bly?
- A.
Wrote stories about the plight of working women
- B.
Lived in an asylum to investigate what was happening there
- C.
Traveled around the world
- D.
All the above
- 7.Who was a famous photographer that covered the Dust Bowl during the Depression ?
- A.
Carl Bernstein
- B.
Edward R. Murrow
- C.
Howard Stern
- D.
Margaret Bourke-White?
- 8.Who was Gloria Steinem?
- A.
Magazine editor who lead the feminist movement
- B.
Pushed for women's right to vote
- C.
One of the nation's first shock jocks
- D.
First woman newspaper editor
- 9.Editor of the first U.S. newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick
- A.
Benjamin Day
- B.
Benjamin Harris
- C.
Benjamin Franklin
- D.
Benjamin Hart
- 10.Which case limits the student press more?
- A.
Hazelwood
- B.
Tinker
- 11.Which is censorship?
- A.
A school official reviewing the contents of a school newspaper
- B.
A school official asking a newspaper staff to remove a story from the paper
- 12.Which of the following is not covered in the First Amendment?
- A.
Petition the government
- B.
Freeedom of religion
- C.
Freedom of the press
- D.
Right to own a gun
- 13.The Tinker case involved:
- A.
The right to print a negative story
- B.
The right to petition the government
- C.
Censorship
- D.
Right to protest the war
- 14.The publication of a false statement of fact that seriously harms someone's reputation is called
- A.
Muckracking
- B.
Libel
- C.
Yellow journalism
- D.
Censorship
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