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Name 2 New Journalism authors and one of each of their works. Tom Wolfe - "The Kandy-Colored Tangerine Flake Steamlined Baby" & Gay Talese - "The Kingdom & The Power"
Who was Margaret Bourke-White? Photographer for Life magazine who gained national acclaim for her work.
Name 3 major civil rights stories that took place between the Emmett trial and MLKJ's "I have a dream" speech. (1) Montgomery Bus Boycott (2) Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis (3) The Birmingham Sunday School Bombing (4) The Sit-Ins (5) The Freedom Rides
What was significant about president Warren G. Harding? He was the first president to address the nation by radio.
Name five Life Magazine photographers who achieved national fame. (1) Margaret Bourke-White (2) Alfred Eisenstaedt (3) W. Eugene smith (4) Robert Capa (5) Cart Mydans (6) David Douglas Duncan (7) Gordon Parks
Teletypesetter created trends toward newspaper uniformity in what 3 ways? (1) Cheaper to wire the story of a national writer than having a local journalist produce it (2) Standard style of writing (3) Standard news paper column size & structure - all papers looked alike.
What four companies combined to form RCA? (1) United Fruit (2) AT&T (3) General Electric (4) Westinghouse
These 7 points outline electronic media regulation as set forth by the law. (1) Radio waves belong to the people (2) Radio is a unique service (3) Service must be equally distributed (4) Not everyone is eligible to use a channel (5) Expression protected by 1st amdt. (6) Gov't has regulatory powers (7) Gov't power not absolu
Who developed the telegraph, secured the patent, and sent the first official message on it? Samuel B. Morse
What is the name of the first radio station to have regular programming? In what city? What company owned it? KDKA, Pittsburg, Westinghouse.
Which radio station was the first to provide network broadcasting? What city? WEAF, New York City.
This pioneer developed NBC. David Sarnoff.
Which company was responsible for the first network broadcast which linked WEAF (NYC) and WNAC (Boston)? AT&T
What so-called recluse from Murray, Kentucky was credited as "the inventor of radio"? Nathan B. Stubblefield
Who first added voice communication to a radio transmission? Reginald A. Fessanden
Who is the father of radio? Lee De Forest
What did the wireless ship act of 1910 do and as a result of what? Required all ocean vessels to have licensed equipment & operators. The Titanic Disaster.
During what historic time frame were radio patents removed from their owners and pooled for the benefit of America? World War I
What does RCA stand for? How was RCA formed? Radio Corporation of America. General Electric (GE) needed a new company to control the radio patent they purchased from Marconi.
Who was William F. Buckley Jr.? (1) Founding editor of "National Review" (2) The "Patron Saint of Conservatism"
Who was Robert Montgomery? (1) Actor (2) Television advisor to President Dwight Eisenhower
What was significant about president Ronald Reagan? (1) His inauguration was the first to be closed-captioned on TV for the hearing impaired. (2) His assassination attempt was one of the first instantly televised.
Who is Ann Compton? (1) ABC's Chief White House Correspondant (2) The only TV reporter to accompany Bush on Air Force One after the 9/11 attacks.
What is significant about president Dwight Eisenhower? His inauguration was the first to be televised.
What is the significance of president John F. Kennedy? (1) He was the first president to allow the media "behind the scenes" of the presidential campaign. (2) He was great at ad-lib and defusing tough questions with one-word answers.
Who was Carl Bernstein? A city-desk reporter for Washington Post who allegedly followed the Watergate story for months.
Who was Bob Woodward? A city-desk reporter for Washington Post who allegedly followed the Watergate story for months.
Who was Rudolph Flesch? (1) Austrian readability expert (2) Promted use of simple words & short sentences (3) Helped advertising & news departments correct usage after WWII
What is significant about president Harry S. Truman? (1) First president to use television (2) Broadcast from White House (3) Brought cameras into cabinet meetings
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