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18 Cards in this Set
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Mass Media |
news sources, including newspapers, tv, radio, and Internet, whose purpose is to provide a large audience with information about the nation and the world |
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News Media |
subset of the mass media that provide the news of the day, gathered and reported by journalists |
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Watchdog |
role of the press in monitoring government actions |
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Libel |
publishing false statements about another person |
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Actual Malice |
Supreme Court test for a libel of a public figure, in which the plaintiff must prove publisher knew that the material was false or acted with reckless disregard of whether it was true or flase |
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Seditious Libel |
COnduct or language that incites rebellion against the authority of a state |
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Penny Press |
newspapers sold for a penny, initiating an era in which the press began to rely on circulation and advertising for income and not on political parties |
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Yellow Journalism |
Style of journalism in the late 19th century characterized by sensationalism intended to capture readers' attention and increase circulation |
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Muckraking |
Journalistic practice of investigative reporting that seeks to uncover corruption and wrongdoing |
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Soft News |
News stories focused less on on facts and politics than on sensationalizing secondary issues or on less serious subjects of the entertainment world |
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Propoganda Model |
Extreme view of the media's role in society, arguing that the press serves the interest of the government only, driving what the public thinks about important issues |
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Minimal Effects Model |
View of the media's impact as marginal, since most people seek news reports to reinforce what they already believe rather than developing new ones |
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Selective Exposure |
Process whereby people secure information from sources that agree with them, thus reinforcing their beliefs |
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Selective Perception |
Process whereby partisans interpret the same information differently |
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Not-So-Minimal-Effects Model |
View of the media's impact as substantial, occurring by agenda setting, framing, and priming |
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Agenda Setting |
Ability of the media to affect the way people view issues and events by controlling which stories are shown and which are not |
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Priming |
Process whereby the media influence the criteria the public uses to make decisions |
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Framing |
Ability of the media to influence perception of issues by constructing the issue or discussion of a subject in a certain way |
