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WorksheetsEvolution of Newspaper
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What we call "Fake News" now was once called
Tabloids
Gossip
Red journalism
Yellow Journalism
What war was caused by Yellow Journalism
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The Spanish-American War
The Persian Gulf War
What is Muckraking?
Investigative, socially conscious reporting
Manual labor
Political stereotypes
Bias in the news
Why were TV broadcasts delayed until the 1950s?
World War II happened in the 1940s
The TV wasn't invented until then
People liked reading the newspaper more
The government wouldn't allow it
Who is this man (known for See It Now TV program in the 1950s)?
Nellie Bly
John F. Kennedy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward R. Murrow
What important invention of the 19th century helped transmit Civil War stories quickly?
The television
The radio
The camera
The telegraph
What was the name of Upton Sinclair's novel that focused on the appalling and nauseating conditions of the meat-packing industries in 1908?
The Factory
The Jungle
The Warehouse
The Meat
These two journalists at the Washington Post broke the Watergate scandal story.
Woodrow & Bernstein
Woodrow & Blackson
Woodward & Brokaw
Woodward & Bernstein
Journalists who investigated corruption, social institutions, and politics and promoted social responsibility were called ________________________.
yellow journalists
editors
muckrakers
newsies
___________________ was the pen name of a journalist who pretended to be mentally ill and was committed to New York's Blackwell Insane Asylum in order to write a story about the poor conditions of the asylum.
William Heart
Andrew Hamilton
Dorothea Lange
Nellie Bly
