Jour J 110 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Challenges to the Movie Business Model II Meeting the Challenges III Hollywood Today The Formula IV The New Model V Bollywood Outline of Current Lecture I II III More on Movies 20 Questions Journalists Should Ask About Poll Results Yes We Can More on Movies 72 of Americans go to at least one movie a year In economic depressions people tend to go to the movies more often 2012 was the best year for movies in the U S ever Netflix has 33 million U S subscribers many of whom use the service to watch movies Hollywood Started largely by Jewish immigrants worked in L A to avoid Edison Another reason all the movies were in California was because the studio system was like a factory and each part of the process took place there Eventually the Justice Department declared it a monopoly system and broke up Paramount in what became known as the Hollywood Antitrust case 1948 the US Supreme Court ruled that studios had to sell off their movie theaters The Birth of a Nation First feature length film highly racist Actors started to be treated like stars given credits D W Griffith needed outside funding for next movie The Hollywood Ten Movie Ratings 20 Questions Journalists Should Ask About Poll Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Who did the poll Who paid for the poll and why was it done How many people were interviewed for the survey How were those people chosen What area nation state or region or what group teachers lawyers Democratic voters etc were these people chosen from Are the results based on the answers of all the people interviewed Who should have been interviewed and was not When was the poll done How were the interviews conducted Is this a dial in poll a mail in poll or a subscriber coupon poll What is the sampling error for the poll results What other kinds of mistakes can skew poll results What questions were asked In what order were the questions asked What other polls have been done on this topic Do they say the same thing If they are different why are they different So the poll says the race is all over What now Was the poll part of a fund raising effort So I ve asked all the questions The answers sound good The poll is correct right With all these potential problems should we ever report poll results Is this poll worth reporting Yes We Can A BRIEF PRIMER ON CAMPAIGNS AND POLITICAL DATA https resources oncourse iu edu access content attachment FA14 BL JOUR J11012909 Announcements bea0894c a9f1 405d af68 f270f75208b5 Kreiss YesWeCanProfileYou pdf
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