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Questions from "Americans and Their News"
(Chapter two of The News About the News , Downie & Kaiser)
1. What is advocacy reporting? (Look it up)
2. What are sedition laws?
3. How did sedition laws threaten journalism?
4. What happened to sedition laws?
5. How did the “penny press” differ in content and style from earlier American newspapers?
6. Why was the Associated Press more detached and factual than most newspapers of the time?
7. Who were Hearst and Pulitzer?
8. Why were these men criticized?
9. Why was “yellow journalism” so named?
10. Is muckraking a positive or negative term? Fully support your answer.
11. How did newspapers become the first mass medium?
12. What were early tabloids like and why?
13. How did radio change newspaper reporting?
14. What was the “golden age of magazines”?
15. How did television change the news?
16. What were the “nattering nabobs of negativism”?
17. What is “new journalism?”
18. How did journalism change through the 60s to 90s?
19. How did 9/11 change the news and its audience?
