News Analysis

Question 1

According to Postman, what "stages" the world and is a main way to learn about our own culture?

Accepted Answer

television

Question 2

Whose presidential campaign does Adatto use for many examples of campaigning on imagery?

Accepted Answer

President George Bush

Question 3

Neil Postman claims that what has become the "supra-ideology of all discourse on television"?

Accepted Answer

Entertainment

Question 4

Zengotita gave many examples of a flood of information and choices; among these were:

Accepted Answer

sneakers and shoes species, cereal and juice selections in the supermarket, all answers are correct, pasta possibilities

Question 5

Kiku Adatto's study revealed that the average news soundbite shrunk from 1968 to what in 1988?

Accepted Answer

From 42.3 seconds to 9.8 seconds., To less than ten seconds.

Question 6

In the first televised and radio broadcast debate in 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy, whom did audience claim won?

Accepted Answer

Kennedy won on TV because Nixon suffered from the flu., Kennedy won because he was handsome on television., Nixon won because he debated better on the radio., All answers are correct.

Question 7

Which six examples does Postman offer as places where Americans entertain each other?

Accepted Answer

court, school, operating rooms, business, churches & planes

Question 8

Why wasn't Bernard Schuler worried about his triple by-pass surgery? What did Schuler say?

Accepted Answer

"There is no way in hell they will lose me on live TV."

Question 9

By 1988, the news' use of candidate visuals without their words increased by what percent?

Accepted Answer

more than 300 percent

Question 10

Why does Zengotita say we are always "moving on" from national tragedies like 9/11?

Accepted Answer

Modern life is so chaotic we must make ourselves numb to it., The fast flood of fabricated & repetitive input demands it., Most of us were not personally harmed, so we can move on.

Question 11

What four Fs does Zengotita use demonstrate the chaos of modern life & our need to become numb?

Accepted Answer

Fabrication, Flood, Finitude, and Fast

Question 12

What national tragedy does Zengotita use to explain how American are able to begin "moving on"?

Accepted Answer

9/11

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