The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”
In 1999 how many American adults were considered overweight?
Who is Stephen Sanger? What role did he play in getting food industry leaders to be more attentive to the content of their products?
When this chapter was written how many adults are considered clinically obese? How many kids are clinically obese?
How many Americans are living with Type 2 diabetes? How many live with pre-diabetes?
What does “optimization” of food products mean? What does it entail?
In many Prego sauces, what is the 2nd largest ingredient behind tomatoes?
What did Philip Morris want to “reposition”? How did Lunchables allow that to happen?
Which group did Oscar Mayer focus on most heavily when the product was being developed?
What was the “supply and demand” argument about junk food made by industry managers?
Why couldn’t they put fresh ingredients in the first Lunchables?
What psychological strategy did the Lunchables marketers use to get kids to eat their product?
What was Coca-Cola’s goal? What did it strive for?
What country is mentioned here as being a new target audience for Coke and Nestle?
What was the chief reason Dunn was fired from Coca-Cola?
How did Dunn market baby carrots? What was the tagline?
#34 “Constructing Crime”
Generally speaking, how does the author view the relationship between the reality of crime and the media messages about crime?
What % of the U.S. population has no direct experience with crime?
What is the main difference between the traditional means of disseminating information compared to the newer technologies?
What are some benefits mass media producers gain from focusing on crime?
What has happened to crime rates since the early 1970s? What kind of crime is highlighted in mass media? What do they overreport on?
What did the local television news study find about the composition of average 30 minute news programs?
How are crimes against children and white women portrayed?
To what degree does the news media cover topics such as satanist murderers, serial killers, etc.?
How do the news media portray African American and Hispanic offenders? What are the 3 ways that the race of victims is distorted?
What does the study of the “phantom offender” reveal?
To what degree are young people portrayed as offenders? How does that match up with their actual criminal activities?
What did the study of introductory criminal justice students reveal about their perceptions of violent crime?
How does that match up to actual crime statistics?
What is “cultivation theory”? What is the “mean world syndrome”? How is it related to television news viewership?
What are the crime policies that follow from these distorted news representations?
What is a “moral panic”?
In the 1980s how did the use of crack cocaine get portrayed in news media? How did these portrayals match up to actual use surveys?
What are the policies that followed from these distorted news representations of the crack epidemic?
How were Chinese immigrants associated with opiates?
What % of missing children were runaways or abducted by parents in custody disputes in the 1980s?
How do the news media report on white collar/corporate crime?
How is the coverage of rape distort the reality of the violent crime? What kinds of rape are highlighted more? What kinds of rape get little coverage?
How is the coverage of battering distort the reality of the violent crime?
What is significant about the coverage of school shootings in the 1990s?
What is ideology? To what degree does ideology affect newsmakers and the reporting they produce?
What does crime coverage promote in terms of laws and criminal justice?
What is a “preferred reading”? What is a negotiated or oppositional reading? Which does the author encourage audiences to do?
