Reading questions, 9/21-10/5.  Email answers by 9/28

 

  1. From 150 Years of The Associated Press: "Using the telegraph and the language of dots and dashes known as Morse Code, the AP grew, and in 1875 became the first news organization to ____________________. 

  2. According to Joseph Campbell's "What's Good about Yellow Journalism," "By May 1897, ___________________________________ had, the Press reported, “quarantined their members and patrons” from the menace of yellow journalism."

  3. According to Joe Salsman in "Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular Culture:"

Journalism historian Howard Good sums up how female journalists felt about the name ["sob sister"]: “Most women reporters resented this label because it reinforced the stereotype of women as _________ but __________, emotionally generous but intellectually sloppy.”15 Slang dictionaries date the term to about 1925, defining a sob sister as “a woman news reporter who appeals to ______________ with her accounts of _________________.”

  1. In "The Right to Privacy," Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren argued:

The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world, and man, under the refining influence of culture, has become _______________, so that solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by ________________.

  1. According to Susan Gallagher in "A Man's Home: Rethinking the Origins of the Public/Private Dichotomy in American Law:"

By acknowledging the silence that the divisions between public and private imposed on women and children at the turn of the nineteenth century, we can see how the development of the popular press, commercial and news photography, the telegraph, and, somewhat later, the telephone fueled what might be described as _____________________________.  With the evolution of new modes of communication, men felt compelled to look to the law to control, not only what individuals could or could not do, but whether their conduct would become ________________.

  1. According to Randall P. Bezanson in "The Right to Privacy Revisited: Privacy, News, and Social Change, 1890-1990:"

In 1890, the idea of privacy, as expressed by Warren and Brandeis, had a distinctly ___________. It focused on the "problem" of access by the lower classes of society to information about the upper classes. The concern was with "snooping": the reinforcement of a public appetite for information about other persons, particularly those in privileged positions. n14 In 1990, privacy seems to have less of a __________, and more of a __________ character.

  1. In a few sentences, summarize the Supreme Court's ruling in Olmstead v. United States.

  2. What did the Supreme Court single out as crucial to the health of democracy in New York Times v. Sullivan?