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5813774501adversarial pressPress that is nationally suspicious of officials and rights embarrassing sometimes career ending stories0
5813774502beatsspecific locations from which news frequently emanates such as Congress or the White House1
5813774503biasprejudiced in favor of or against one thing person or group compared with another usually anyway considered to be unfair2
5813774504chainsgroups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over 4/5 of nationals daily newspapers circulation's3
5813774505electronic mediatelevision radio and the Internet as compared with print media4
5813774506equal time rulegives equal time to candidates to say what they need to say5
5813774507fairness doctrine6
5813774508Federal Communications CommissionA six member bipartisan agency created by the federal election campaign act of 19747
5813774509Gatekeeper8
5813774510high tech politicsa politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology9
5813774511investigative journalismThe use of in depth reporting to unearth scandals scams and schemes at times putting reporters and adversarial relationships with political leaders10
5813824961mass mediatelevision radio newspapers and magazines the Internet and other means of popular communication11
5813824962media eventsevents that are purposely stage for the media and then are significant just because the media are there12
5813824963narrowcastingmedia programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed on a particular audience in contrast to broadcasting13
5813824964policy agendaThe issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time14
5813824965policy entrepreneurspeople who invest their political capital in an issue15
5813824966political editorializing rule16
5813824967Press conferencemeetings of public officials with reporters17
5813824968print medianewspapers and magazines as compared with electronic media18
5813824969right of reply rule19
5813824970selective exposureThe process through which people consciously choose to get the news from information sources that had the points compatible with their own20
5813824971soundbiteshort video clips of approximately 10 seconds21
5813824972talking headA shot of a persons face talking directly to the camera22
5813824973trial balloonintentional news lakes for the purpose of assessing the political reaction23
5813824974watchdog press24

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