Media Criticism Study Guide
The final exam (like the midterm) will have a combination of identification and essay questions. Identification will require you to tell me what something/someone is AND why it/they are important. Identifications or essays may be taken from any of the below listed topics (but you are responsible for all the reading, which means I may ask questions that fall outside the below list):
GENERAL TOPICS
Anything we’ve talked about (Wikileaks, Valerie Plame, Judith Miller etc.)
MASSING
Whole book
TEXTBOOK
Penny papers
Wire services
Yellow journalism
The New York Times
Inverted pyramid
Knight Ridder
Johannes Gutenberg
E-books
Google book search
Book superstores
Branding
Mega-agencies
VALS Framework
Advertising as myth
Tobacco advertising
Marlboro Man
PR and blue jeans
Ivy Lee
Edward Bernays
Astroturf
Video News Release
Tylenol tamper scare
Media oligopoly
Viacom vs. YouTube
Disney corp
Top 4 Media Corporations
Cultural imperialism
Nellie Bly
Herbert Gans’ “enduring values”
Bias in the News
Janet Cooke Hoax
Happy Talk
Bleeding and leading
Public journalism
Seung-Hui Cho’s manifesto
Spiral of silence
Sedition Act
Espionage Acts
Pentagon Papers
Copyright laws
Libel
Obscenity
Hays code
MOVIES
War Zone
Buying the War
Loose Change
Wikileaks Apache helicopter video
