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Mass Communications
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25 Questions

1. Journalists who use things like Twitter to get info out fast - but they are not professional

2. Name of the guy Hearst send to Cuba

3. Greek idea that viewing violence allows you to release your violent feelings without causing any harm to anyone

4. Control the flow of ideas and information--decide what messages reach the public (i.e. owners - editors)

5. GE - NBC - Telemundo - Universal--conglomerate (started as RCA)

6. Publisher - THE Editor - other editors - designers - reporters

7. Increasing the amount of advertising and mixing commercial and noncommercial media content

8. Trying to buy NBC-Universal

9. Real-life setting - better - but more expensive

10. Stories that help citizens to make intelligent decisions and keep up with important issues of the day

11. Selection Theory: selective about what we ACTUALLY listen to

12. Regularly updated online journals that comment on just about everything

13. Write on specific subject on particular schedule

14. If the media covers terrorist attacks - it leads to more terrorist attacks

15. _________ broadcasted War of the Worlds on Halloween _______.

16. Suburban or regional versions of a metropolitan paper

17. The percentage of the entire population in that media market

18. Weekly news packages in theaters

19. Is more credible seeming then newspapers (2 to 1 ratio)

20. Sensational stories that do not serve the democratic function of journalism

21. Period where companies will work out kinks and prices go down--the people that buy the technology now is the _________

22. Collection of data that can be characterized and counted in a way. Type of empirical research

23. Part of a survey. More then just a one word answer needed. No yes or no questions

24. Theory that we primarily use mass media to check what we already believe

25. Average household has a TV set on...