5813774501 | adversarial press | Press that is nationally suspicious of officials and rights embarrassing sometimes career ending stories | 0 | |
5813774502 | beats | specific locations from which news frequently emanates such as Congress or the White House | 1 | |
5813774503 | bias | prejudiced in favor of or against one thing person or group compared with another usually anyway considered to be unfair | 2 | |
5813774504 | chains | groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over 4/5 of nationals daily newspapers circulation's | 3 | |
5813774505 | electronic media | television radio and the Internet as compared with print media | 4 | |
5813774506 | equal time rule | gives equal time to candidates to say what they need to say | 5 | |
5813774507 | fairness doctrine | 6 | ||
5813774508 | Federal Communications Commission | A six member bipartisan agency created by the federal election campaign act of 1974 | 7 | |
5813774509 | Gatekeeper | 8 | ||
5813774510 | high tech politics | a politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology | 9 | |
5813774511 | investigative journalism | The use of in depth reporting to unearth scandals scams and schemes at times putting reporters and adversarial relationships with political leaders | 10 | |
5813824961 | mass media | television radio newspapers and magazines the Internet and other means of popular communication | 11 | |
5813824962 | media events | events that are purposely stage for the media and then are significant just because the media are there | 12 | |
5813824963 | narrowcasting | media programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed on a particular audience in contrast to broadcasting | 13 | |
5813824964 | policy agenda | The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time | 14 | |
5813824965 | policy entrepreneurs | people who invest their political capital in an issue | 15 | |
5813824966 | political editorializing rule | 16 | ||
5813824967 | Press conference | meetings of public officials with reporters | 17 | |
5813824968 | print media | newspapers and magazines as compared with electronic media | 18 | |
5813824969 | right of reply rule | 19 | ||
5813824970 | selective exposure | The process through which people consciously choose to get the news from information sources that had the points compatible with their own | 20 | |
5813824971 | soundbite | short video clips of approximately 10 seconds | 21 | |
5813824972 | talking head | A shot of a persons face talking directly to the camera | 22 | |
5813824973 | trial balloon | intentional news lakes for the purpose of assessing the political reaction | 23 | |
5813824974 | watchdog press | 24 |
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