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Mod 9_Ch. 8 Questions Newspapers_Survey of Mass Media Communications

Mod 9_Ch. 8 Questions Newspapers_Survey of Mass Media Communications

Q What are the limitations of a press that serves only partisan interests? Why did the earliest papers appeal mainly to more privileged readers?How did newspapers emerge as a mass medium during the penny press era? How did content changes make this happen? What are the two main features of yellow journalism? How have Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst contributed to newspaper history?Why did objective journalism develop? What are its characteristics? What are its strengths and limitations?Why did interpretive forms of journalism develop in the modern era? What are the limits of objectivity?How would you define literary journalism? Why did it emerge in such an intense way in the 1960's? How did literary journalism provide a critique of so-called objective news?

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The press in the earlier days had its own set of advantages and limitations, and one of the limitations was in the form of the interest it served, which was directed mainly at favoring and pushing the plan of the political group which was linked with subsiding the paper. This reflected on the appeal as well, which was centered on privileged readers, mainly men to be precise, which were the educated and wealthy men, who also played an active role in controlling the political atmosphere locally and influenced commerce.