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equal time rule
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a requirement that radio and television stations allow equal time to all candidates for office
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fairness doctrine
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a policy now abandoned, that radio and television stations provide time to all sides in programs of public interest
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federal communications commission (FCC)
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a government commission formed to allocate radio and television frequencies and regulate braodcasting procedures
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investigative jouralism
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the uncovering of corruption, scandal, conspiracy, and abuses of power in government and business; differs from standard press coverage in the depth of the coerage sought, the time spent researching the subject, and the shocking findings that often result from such reporting
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libel
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published material that damages a person's reputation or good name in an untruthful and malicious way. libelous material is not protected by the first amendment
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mass media
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the various media - newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet - through which information is transferred from its sources to large numbers of people
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muckracking
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a word used to describe a style of investigative reporting that uncovered many scandals and abuses
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prior restraint
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an action in which the government seeks to ban the publication of controversial material by the press before it is published; censorship
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right of rebuttal
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the right to refute the allegations presented on a radio or television station, free of charge, within a reasonable amount of time
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socialization
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the process b which people learn to conform to their society's norms and values
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yellow journalism
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brash, colorful, generiously illustrated, often lurid and sensationalized organs of half truth, innuendo, and sometimes outright lies, usually associated with the big-city daily newspapers of Josepth Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
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