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Reading Questions
- Fabrication, Consolidation, and the News
The easiest way to complete the reading questions is to copy
the questions, paste them
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your full name and the letters "MP" in the subject heading of your email.
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transmit your message.
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From "Janet
Cooke and Jimmy's World:" “Nevertheless,
Cooke was disgraced as a journalist and dropped out
of the public eye for many years. She briefly
re-emerged in 1996 to tell her story to the magazine
GQ. The movie rights from that interview were
subsequently ________________.”
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From “"Confabulation
Crisis:” “On
Tuesday Barnicle responded with a furious column, a
masterpiece of petulance and self-pity, datelined
Dublin, in which he compared himself to Irish
nationalist hero Michael Collins ("shot to death by
his own people") and fulminated that the "Globe
chose to put me on the rack to appear even-handed
within the _______________________________________."
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From “The
Jayson Blair Project:” “Blair,
like Glass, Cooke, Smith, and Forman, got away with
making things up for as long as he did because
______________________________.
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From “Flood
the Zone with Innuendo:” "Fear not that
Robinson will suffer. Parks, Ellis, Flynn, and Gore
will probably have to put up forever with the damage
to their reputations, but Robinson can take comfort
in the _________________________, which have
recently rewarded Blair with primetime coverage of
his memoir and secured sinecures for Barnicle at
both the Daily News and the Boston Herald."
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List the
"Big Ten" media giants discussed by
Mark Crispin Miller in "What's
Wrong with This Picture?"
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From the stories covered in this week's lesson,
describe one or two instances in which newspaper
reporters and editors' attempts "seem fair" ended up
distorting the news. Be sure to write in specific,
detailed, and complete sentences.
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