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| 12033263061 | prior restraint | government censorship of information before it is published or broadcast | 0 | |
| 12033271642 | shield laws | Laws that give reporters some protection against having to reveal their sources | 1 | |
| 12033285046 | Freedom of Information Act | Gives all citizens the right to inspect all records of federal agencies except those containing military, intelligence, or trade secrets; increases accountability of bureaucracy | 2 | |
| 12033292914 | watchdog function | the press stands ready to expose officials who violate accepted legal, ethical, or performance standards | 3 | |
| 12033304194 | Gatekeeper | The media can influence what subjects become national political issues and for how long. | 4 | |
| 12033311279 | Scorekeeper role of media | keep track of and make political reputations | 5 | |
| 12033349177 | National Media | certain publications and broadcast stations supply most of the information that more local stations publish | 6 | |
| 12033377845 | on the record | information provided to a journalist that can be released and attributed by name to the source | 7 | |
| 12033388204 | off the record | info provided to a journalist that will not be released to the public | 8 | |
| 12033399077 | deep background | Information from an official that can be printed but not attributed at all. | 9 | |
| 12033451168 | Woodward and Bernstein | two reporters for the Washington Post who uncover the Watergate scandal by constant digging and tips from "Deep Throat" bring down Nixon in 1974 | 10 | |
| 12033465914 | Trial Baloons | an intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction | 11 | |
| 12033498289 | Libel | a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation. | 12 | |
| 12033505016 | Slander | the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. | 13 | |
| 12033523395 | CSPAN | Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, a group that broadcasts government events on television (congress) | 14 | |
| 12033536453 | "spin" | a favorable interpretation of a story or event | 15 | |
| 12033573846 | equal time rule | An FCC rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one candidate, it must sell equal time to other candidates. | 16 | |
| 12033598034 | Muckraking | the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. | 17 | |
| 12033621273 | Media Bias | Bias or slant in the selection of which news to report and how the news is reported. | 18 | |
| 12033629728 | adversarial press | the tendency of the national media to be suspicious of officials and eager to reveal unflattering stories about them | 19 | |
| 12033659908 | talk radio | tends to be dominated by conservatives | 20 | |
| 12033696923 | Routine news stories | standard news events that are commonly covered by many outlets | 21 |
