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WorksheetsMedia Literacy Everything Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 5mins
The creator of the telegraph was
Johannes Gutenberg
Samuel Morse
Joseph Pulitzer
The pioneers of motion picture technology in 1890s France were the _______ Brothers.
Lumiere
Lyon
Dijonaisse
Seydoux
The short films of newsworthy events that played before movies in movie theaters before there were TVs were called:
(a)
Tim Berners-Lee created the ______ in 1989.
Cell phone
World Wide Web
Nintendo Gameboy
_________________ was a time of great corruption where investigative journalism thrived as a way to keep corporate power in check.
The Subscription Wars
The Yellow Journalism
The Progressive Era
The Antebellum Era
The CBS journalist who stood up to Senator McCarthy was
Paley
Murrow
Cronkite
Attenborough
Massive media corporations made up of several other companies are called:
(a)
Media organizations that are funded largely from listener / viewer donations are called:
public media
state media
non-conglomerates
(a) is the use of shocking or exciting language, stories, or techniques, regardless of accuracy, to get people to tune in to your show.
The rhetorical appeal that uses trust in the person delivering the message is called
ethos
logos
pathos
The rhetorical appeal that speakers and advertisers use to create emotion is called (a)
The characteristics of audiences or groups of people such as age, gender, income, etc. are called...
psychographics
marketing labels
demographics
character targets
The organization that is the dominant producer of PSAs is called
The PSA Place
AdCouncil
Persuade Inc.
Public Good
All the information you post or that is posted about you is called your _______
social tracks
digital domain
digital footprint
cyber stalker
Edward Snowden was a contractor for _______ when he found classified files about the government's spying programs.
FBI
CIA
NSA
SVSD
__________ are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel and are generally said to work well together in design.
saturated colors
complementary colors
triads
contrast pairs
We are said to be in a "______" society, where facts are viewed as irrelevant or less important than personal beliefs and opinions, and emotional appeals are used to influence public opinion.
post truth
corporate media
technocratic
fake news
This conspiracy theory, to which two congresspeople subscribe, talks about a baby-eating group of democrats and Hollywood actors and "the Great Storm."
The Oath Keepers
Qanon
The Proud Boys
The Tiki Torch Prophecy
_______ is the fear or distrust of someone or something that is foreign or unknown
foreign aversion
alien distrust
xenophobia
myophobia
What is an environment where a person seeks out only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own?
An echo chamber
A news box
A chatterbox
An opinion box
The _______ sought to cover controversial issues of public importance, accurately, and reflect opposing views due to the power of TV, but it was ended in 1987.
The Media Trust Act
The FCC Pact
The Fairness Doctrine
The Murrow View
