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A film from 1960 called [BLANK-1] depicted the American south during the Great Depression. It focused on an Agent from the TVA, who had to navigate racism in the south and also deal with concerns from locals about the loss of their property due to eminent domain. Although the TVA provided electricity to areas that had never had it, built much needed infrastructure, and created thousands of jobs for locals (all paid for by the federal government), it also increased distrust of the government in the region as some families were forced to relocate. While those forced to move were adequately reimbursed by the government, they continued to resent the issue because they had to abandon their homes, land, and property.

Part of the Harlem Renaissance, [BLANK-1], was a music venue in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It featured Black culture, music, and heritage and many celebrated musicians performed at the location; however, due to Jim Crow laws African Americans could perform but could not be customers. It became a site where whites journeyed to see authentic jazz.

[BLANK-1] was a popular musician who found fame in the 1950s and helped to popularize Rock n’ Roll nationally. The genre was invented by Black musicians, such as Chuck Berry, but this young, handsome, and charismatic White singer brought Rock n’ Roll to the mainstream. Speaking of his importance, fellow musician Bruce Springsteen said he “gave us full access to a new language, a new form of communication, a new way of being, a new way of looking, a new way of thinking; about sex, about race, about identity, about life; a new way of being an American, a human being; and a new way of hearing music….Once he came across the airwaves, once he was heard and seen in action, you could not put the genie back in the bottle. After that moment, there was yesterday, and there was today, and there was a red hot, rockabilly forging of a new tomorrow, before your very eyes.” Young women, particularly, were enamored with the singer’s looks, energy, and sensuality, much to the chagrin of their parents who felt that his dancing was sexually suggestive and perverse.

True or false: according o the lecture, conflict framing is good for the media.

What narrative was generally not told in the context of the House vs. NCAA case?

[BLANK-1] was instrumental toward forming the financial, organizational, and ideological underpinnings of the free-market advocacy groups that emerged and found ready adherents in America’s new suburban spaces in the postwar decades. It became a precursor, in some ways, to libertarian economic philosophy. During the Great Depression (an economic disaster that firmly undermined the intellectual justifications for keeping government out of the economy), this organization attracted true believers in the myth of the free market. During the depression, this organization reinvented itself and initiated advertising campaigns supporting free enterprise and “the American way of life.” It attracted likeminded business leaders such as J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil and Jasper Crane of DuPont Chemical Co. who worked hard to spread the message of free enterprise to the American people.

By the 1950s, some intellectuals began referring to the United States as a [BLANK-1], due to its increasingly urban population, the prevalence of shared culture through media, film, and television, growing affluence, and increased access to consumer goods. Most Americans attempted to conform to a specific idea of what an American should be and should do. Some youths bemoaned this conformity, sought alternative options to popular culture, and yearned for something beyond the affluence and comfort of their lives.

Actor, singer, football star, thespian, lawyer, and polyglot [BLANK-1] was a critic of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. In 1956, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed this man and demanded that he answer whether he was a card-carrying member of the communist party. This celebrity refused to testify before congress. As a Black man he had vocally criticized the United States for its poor record on civil rights. He accused congress of putting him on trial not for his political beliefs but because he had fought for better rights for minorities. “You are the un-Americans,” he told them, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.” He had previously had his passport revoked and lost his NCAA All-American football honors because he sang a benefit concert for earthquake victims in China (which happened to be a communist country). Since he could not travel outside of the country, he sang a benefit concert for Canadians at the International Peace Arch on the border of the U.S. and Canada.

Remember the example we used in class about news values? “Walk-on player involved in 12-person brawl in dorm.” Let’s say that happened and the media posted tweets about the incident. Match the framing theory with the tweet.

[BLANK-1] was an American Army General who evacuated the Philippines, vowing to return, before its early fall to the Japanese. He was critical of Chester M. Nimitz’s Island-Hopping Strategy in the Pacific and argued that many individual islands could be skipped over and offered no real strategic value. He oversaw the surrender of the Japanese at the war’s end and served as the de facto governor of Japan in the early stages of the peace process. Later, during the Korean War, he would be fired for insubordination when he publicly criticized President Harry S. Truman.