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23 Cards in this Set
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Adversarial Press |
The suspicious nature of the national press toward public officials. |
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Attack Journalism |
The current era of media coverage that seizes upon any bit of information or rumor that might cll into question the qualification or character of a public official |
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Background story |
A tactic by government officials to win journalistic friends. The official purportedly explains current policy on condition that the source of the information not be identified by name |
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confidentiality |
Reporters keeping sources of their stories secret |
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equal-time rule |
An FCC regulation requiring that if a station sells time to one candidate seeking office, it must sell time to the opposing candidate as well. |
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Fairness doctrine |
An FCC rule, abolished in 1987, that required broadcasters to give time to opposing views if they broadcasted one side of a controvesial issue |
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Feature stories |
A type of news story that involves a public event not routinely covered by reporters and that requires a reporter to take initiative to select the story and persuade an editor to run it. |
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Federal Communications Commision (FCC) |
An agency of federal government with authority to develop regulations for the broadcast media |
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gatekeeper |
The role played by the media in influencing what subjects become national political issues and for how long |
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Insider stories |
A type of news story that involves information not usually made public which requires investigation work on the part of a reporter or a leak by some public official. |
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Loaded language |
the use of words to presuade people of somehting without actually making a claer argument |
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Market |
An area easily reached by a stations televison signal |
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muckcraker |
A journalist who investigates the activities og public officials and organizations, especialy business firms, seeking to expose and publizize misconduct or corruption. |
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Party press |
Newspapers created, sponsored,and controlled by political parties to futher their interests. This form of press exisited in the early years of American republic. Circulation was chiefly amog political and commercial elites. |
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Political editorializing rule |
A regulation of the FCC providing a candidate with the right to respond if a broadcaster endorses the opposing candidate. |
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popular press |
self-supporting daily newspapers aimed at the mass readership |
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prior restraint |
Government censorship by forbidding publification of the information. |
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right-of-reply rule |
A regulation by the FCC permitting a person the right to respond f attacked on a broadcast other then in a regular news program. |
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Scorekeeper |
The role played by the media in keeping track of and helping make political reputations |
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Sound bite |
A video clip used on nightly newscasts. The average length of such clips has decreased making it harder for candidates to get their message across |
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Trial Ballon |
A tactic by an anonymous source to float a policy to ascretian public reaction before the policy is actually purposed. |
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Watchdog |
The role played by the media in investigating political personalitiesand exposing scandals |
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Yellow journalism |
The use of sensationalism to attrackt a large readership for a newspaper. |
