Deck 2: The Construction of Crime News

Question 1

The media is more accurately portrayed as:

A) window on the world.
B) a mirror reflecting real life.
C) Hall of Mirrors.
D) a glimpse into the world.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

All of the following are responsible for sifting through and selecting news items except:

A) TV news producers.
B) producers.
C) bloggers.
D) politicians.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

______ prioritizes some stories over others.

A) Framing
B) Agenda setting
C) Priming
D) Public appeal

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Framing constitutes all of the following except:

A) edit words.
B) adopt particular tones.
C) prioritize stories.
D) decide on the visuals.

Question 5

Individuals in the media often choose events that:

A) convey meanings.
B) offer solutions.
C) provide pictures of the world.
D) all of these.

Question 6

______ select, produce, and present news according to a range of professional criteria that are used as benchmarks to determine a story's newsworthiness.

A) producers
B) politicians
C) editors
D) cameramen

Question 7

The main channel in the United Kingdom is known as:

A) PBS.
B) BBC.
C) NBC.
D) CNN.

Question 8

American prisons employ ______ million individuals.

A) 500,000+
B) 700,000+
C) 900,000+
D) 1

Question 9

______ million people are governed by probation or parole.

A) 2.1
B) 3.6
C) 4.7
D) 5.1

Question 10

All of the following crimes were virtually unheard of 25 years ago except:

A) trolling.
B) online grooming.
C) revenge porn.
D) car accidents.

Question 11

The term "serial killer" did not exist in its current cultural form until an ______ agent properly named it.

A) CIA
B) NSA
C) FBI
D) DEA

Question 12

______ is one of the most salient news values.

A) Risk
B) Sex
C) Children
D) Violence

Question 13

The most notorious figure in the history of the British criminal justice system is ______.

A) Myra Hindley
B) Ian Brady
C) Jeffrey Dahmer
D) John Wayne Gacy

Question 14

______ has both spatial and cultural dynamics.

A) Threshold
B) Proximity
C) Individualism
D) Risk

Question 15

"Make American Great Again" was the presidential campaign slogan for which of the following presidents?

A) Donald Trump
B) Barack Obama
C) Mitt Romney
D) Sarah Palin

Question 16

Which of the news structures/news values allows news outlets to plan their coverage and deploy their resources in advance?

A) threshold
B) risk
C) predictability
D) proximity

Question 17

Which of the news structures/news values posits that events must be reducible to a minimum number of parts or themes?

A) threshold
B) simplification
C) proximity
D) risk

Question 18

Which of the news structures/news values connects simplification and risk?

A) proximity
B) threshold
C) individualism
D) predictability

Question 19

Which of the news structures/news values posits that the United States is prone to accusations of ethnocentrism?

A) proximity
B) threshold
C) individualism
D) predictability

Question 20

Which of the news structures/news discusses the credence of television news?

A) violence or conflict
B) sex
C) risk
D) visual spectacle and graphic imagery

Question 21

The Clutter Family lived in the state of:

A) California.
B) Florida.
C) Kansas.
D) Ohio.

Question 22

An article in ______ prompted Truman Capote to write a true crime novel.

A) The Washington Post
B) The New York Times
C) The Chicago Tribune
D) The New York Post

Question 23

______ was once referred to as a "very fast, but not entirely reliable news agency."

A) Facebook
B) Twitter
C) Snapchat
D) Instagram

Question 24

Twitter first garnered newsworthy attention after which of the following events?

A) U.S. Airways landing on the Hudson River
B) Chinese earthquake in the Sichuan Province
C) the murder of a female protestor in Tehran
D) all of these

Question 25

Truman Capote's true crime masterpiece, In Cold Blood, was first published in:

A) 1960.
B) 1963.
C) 1966.
D) 1969.

Question 26

The reporting of crime news is not shaped by the mission to entertain.

Question 27

The news is not an accurate representation of the overall picture of crime.

Question 28

Media images are reality.

Question 29

Adopting tones is part of a process known as agenda setting.

Question 30

Framing is an ideological process.

Question 31

The threshold of a potential story does not vary.

Question 32

Crime itself is frequently predictable.

Question 33

Events do not have to be simple in order to make the news.

Question 34

Convicted criminals can also become media "celebrities" by virtue of the notoriety of their crimes.

Question 35

Childhood is a social construction.

Question 36

A binary opposition story is most often that of a story of good versus evil.

Question 37

Crime trends are very simple and do not take time to unfold.

Question 38

A citizen journalist typically works at a news agency.

Question 39

The relationship between citizen journalism and mainstream media outlets is symbiotic.

Question 40

Crimes committee by children are typically not newsworthy.

Question 41

What are the two factors that media images are dependent on?

Question 42

What are news values?

Question 43

What are the 12 structures and values that shape crime news?

Question 44

Why do crimes of a sexual nature distort the overall picture of crime?

Question 45

What is the difference between cultural proximity and spatial proximity?