What was the name of the “Master of Street Literature” who was the subject of the article written by Ted Peterson?

Section III

 

Instructions:  Define and Identify any 75  of the below 92 Options.  Maximum length should be two sentences.  Most can be answered in one.    Telegraphic style is acceptable here.  Place III before each of your answers.

 

 

 

1. What was the name of the “Master of Street Literature” who was the subject of the article written by Ted Peterson?

 

2. Name and publisher of the first newspaper published in America according to lecture and readings.

 

3. Who was the founder of the Penny Press in America and what was the name of his newspaper?

 

4. Who was the founder of the contemporary manner/style of hard news writing?

 

5. Gemeinshaft and Gesellshaft

 

6. The significance of “After the Ball Was Over” lyrics according to lecture, film and your Stevens text.

 

7. According to Stevens, the symbol of Uncle Sam replaced Brother_________________?

 

 

8. What was the function of murder ballads distributed in England, according to Theodore Peterson?

 

9. According to Ted Peterson, who published the first book in England in 1477?

 

10. What was the name of Joseph Pulitzer’s paper?

 

11. Harry Thawshot Stanford White. Thaw’s wife, Evelyn Nesibit, also was called “The Gibson Girl.” Why?

 

12. Where elsewhere has National Enquirer Senior Writer Doug Montero worked?

 

13. Exactly why did Harry Thaw shoot Stanford White?

 

14. What was the relation of the Journal and the World in the late 1890’s? And who were their publishers?

 

15. First Amendment of the Constitution and its significance to this course.

 

16. 1833

 

17. New York Sun

 

18. Five Corners, according to lecture and your text.

 

19. New York Herald

 

20. Where did the name “Yellow” come from in the term “Yellow Journalism”?

 

21. New York Tribune

 

22. Joseph Pulitzer

 

23. William Randolph Hearst

 

24. The Gilded Age

 

25. James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

 

26. Horace Greeley

 

27. Muckrakers

 

28. What was the thesis behind the John D. Stevens’ book?

 

29. What was the New York Graphic?

 

30. Which paper was William Randolph Hearst’s Mirror designed to challenge?

 

31. List three characteristics common to two American periods of sensationalism prior to

the twentieth century?

 

32. Two articles you read and Dr. Bird argue the significance of the magazine Confidential. What was this significance?

 

33. Name a famous reporter (and father of the gossip column) who worked for Confidential.

 

34. The American government accused Confidential of violating which laws?

 

35. How and where did Confidential editor Rushmore die?

 

36. To what period does Josephine Baker belong?

 

37. What two entrepreneurs are compared in J. Anthony Lukas’ “The Alternative Lifestyle’ of Playboys and Playmates?”

 

38. Lists three or four recent trends in sensationalism in newspapers and television.

 

39. What is the relation between he front page of the daily metropolitan tabloid and the front page of the weekly supermarket tabloid?

 

40. What is the relationship of confession and police crime magazines to the supermarket weekly tabloids

 

41. Three similarities between Hugh Hefner and Walt Disney, according to lecture and Lukas.

 

42. List at least three changes in the front page of American newspaper layout which have occurred during the last 250 years according to the slides you have seen.

 

 

43. Name the first 20^th century period of American Journalism and give its approximate dates.

 

44. Tabloid Journalism

 

45. Hard News

 

46. Soft News

 

47. Journalism (define)

 

 

48. The old pornography, according to Tom Wolfe

 

The new pornography, according to Tom Wolfe

 

49. What is the significance of the life of Generoso Pope, Jr. and where did he go to college?

 

50. The Playboy magazine article you received described the downfall of VP Candidate John Edwards. What was the role of the National Enquirer in this story and what did John Edwards do?

 

51. Who is Reginald Potterton?

 

52. What audience was Hugh Hefner, with his Playboy contribution, designed to reach?

 

53. List some pursuits of Bernarr McFadden, other than publishing. And, how did her get to work, according to your article and class discussion?

 

54. Give the thesis of Ron Rosenbaum’s article titled “The Devil in Long Island.”

 

55. List three common themes in tabloids, according to Donald Bird in “The ‘wages of sin’ Themes and World View in the American Tabloid Press”

 

56. What is the “Cosmology of Fear,” according to Steve Gorelick? What is Gorelick’s thesis?

 

57. Who was Anthony Comstock?

 

58. What publication did Elliott J. Gorn describe in his article titled “The Wicked World”? And, what was the thesis of this article?

 

59. Jazz Journalism (define)

 

60. “Page 3” in the British popular press

 

 

61. What dominated the content on 1950’s tabloids prior to being marketed the supermarket, according to Reginald Potterton and Tom Wolfe.

 

62. What is Hugh Hefner’s contribution to men’s magazines?

 

63. What was the relationship between Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe?

 

64. Where does one find the Weekly World News today?

 

65. Define “Pulp Magazines”

 

66. List the categories and approximate dates of three periods of American

journalism.

 

67. According to your Stevens text, what is the meaning of women of the 1920’s who roll their stockings down below their knees?

 

68. What was the significance of the press coverage of the Charles Lindberg baby

kidnapping?

 

69. Who was Ruth Snyder and why was a picture of her significant?

 

70. List three shows that qualify as tabloid television

 

71. What are three similarities between Hugh Hefner and Walt Disney, according to J. Anthony Lukas?

 

72. What is the significance of the “Paul McCartney Is Dead” rumor, according to Donald Bird

 

73. List three names of newspapers that belong to the British “Popular Press.”

 

74. List three major themes in today’s supermarket weeklies, according to Bird.

 

75. List three common characteristics about supermarket weeklies style, according to Bird.

 

76. List three favorite themes in today’s New York daily metropolitan

newspapers.

 

77. What is the essence of crime news as argued in Jack Katz “What makes crime ‘news’?

 

78. According to Donald Bird, what political force does high-circulation tabloid journalism reflect and express?

 

79. What is the essence of pornography after 11/63, according to Tom Wolfe?

 

80. According to Bird, which three individuals have appeared most frequently on the supermarket tabloids?

 

81. Ben Day

 

82. Walter Winchell

 

83. Robinson Caps

 

84. Kitsch

 

85. What did George Juergens contribute to the Stevens book Sensationalism and the New York Press?

 

 

86. What was significant about the Robinson-Jewett case news coverage according to John Stevens. In which era of journalism did this take place?

 

87. What is the origin of the word “tabloid”? That is, what did the word mean in the 19^th century?
88. Exactly why is Confidential Magazine important in the history of sensationalism and Hollywood Coverage.
89. What fam. ous crime case in New Brunswick, New Jersey, did the article titled “Passion in the Parish” describe?
90. Chapbooks
91. According to lecture, where is the tallest free-standing Doric column in the world (close by), and who designed it?
92. One plot you will never see in daytime soap operas, according to Donald Bird.