mass media final

historians who discuss the Marxist theory are referring to history viewed through the lens of class struggle. What is the view from the working class

Bottom up

Did the telegraph changed the nature of journalism

yes, time and space eliminated

newspapers in the colonial era were quick to criticize the British government for its tax policies. Those policies affected two professions more than others.

Printers and lawyers

Mencken blamed the low literacy rate in the United States on

foreign immigrants and poor public schools

World War 2 contributed to the number of daily newspapers shrinking in either circulation or folding altogether. What were the other three reasons

scarcity of labor, lack of paper, and decrease in ads

The government began regulating radio in 1912, but took over ship-to-shore communication during which war

WWI

Double V campaign in Black newspapers during world war II sought “victory —- and victory at —-”

abroad, home

Editor/owner of New York Herald-Tribune

Horace Greeley

Union prisoners, despite being in prison, were allowed to celebrate July 4, 1863. Decisive union victories at both

Gettysburg and vicksburg

which three states had certain regions that voted against secession in 1861?

Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia

Prisoners died of many diseases, including diarrhea and dengue fever. Others included

typhoid, pneumonia, smallpox

The U.S. Christian Commission, a civilian relief agency, provided Union soldiers with three things.

food, medical care, bibles

Morris writes that Black newpapers covered three events not covered in the mainstream newspapers

births, marriages, deaths

chicago defender started publishing in 1905 with —- copies. By 1920, about —- of the circulation was outside chicago.

300, 2/3

The chicago defender publisher, Robert Abbot, was ablt to increase the circulation outside of Chicago with the help of

Pullman Porters

Ethel Payne moved back to chicago to work for the Defender. One of her first reports explained that 77 hospitals operating in the city, how many would treat blacks

few

Payne would also write about the South sides meatpacking industry, which, she pointed out, did not hire Blacks. Which companies

Swift, armour, wilson

Of more than 600 delegates how many were women? Of the 387-person media contingent, how many were women?

0, a few

The organization had a project to support the anticommunicast attitude of the american media. name?

Operation mockingbird

To avoid being outed, American communists had a two-word greeting

Fellow traveller