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| 44027444 | Associated Press | Newspaper publishers from around the nation formed this to promote cooperative news gathering by wire | |
| 44027445 | Attack Journalism | The current era of media coverage that seizes upon any bit of information or rumor that might call into question the qualifications or character of a public official. | |
| 44027446 | Canned News | press releases designed to be inserted into newspaper feature or editorial sections with no change | |
| 44027447 | Community Needs | An official criterion for the renewal of broadcast licenses | |
| 44027448 | Equal Time Rule | an FCC rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one candidate, it must sell equal time to other candidates. | |
| 44027449 | Fairness Doctrine | an FCC requirement that broadcasters who air programs on controversial issues provide time for opposing views | |
| 44027450 | FCC | an independent governmeent agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite | |
| 44027451 | Feature Stories | media stories about events that, though public, are not regularly covered by reporters | |
| 44027452 | Freedom of Information Act | citizens have the right to inspect all government records except those containing military, intelligence, or trade secrets or revealing private personnel actions | |
| 44027453 | Insider Stories | Media stories about events that are not usually made public. | |
| 44027454 | Loaded Language | The use of words to persuade people of something without actually making a clear argument for it. | |
| 44027455 | Market (television) | An area that can all be covered by a single television signal | |
| 44027456 | Muckrakers | This term applies to newspaper reporters and other writers who pointed out the social problems of the era of big business. The term was first given to them by Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 44027457 | Official Secrets ACt | British legislation to punish officials who divulge private government business | |
| 44027458 | Off the record | not for quotation | |
| 44027459 | On Background | information provided to a journalist that will not be attributed to a named source | |
| 44027460 | On Deep Background | what the official says can be used but not attributed to anybody, even an anonymous source | |
| 44027461 | On the Record | information provided to a journalist that can be released and attributed by name to the source | |
| 44027462 | Reckless Disregard | A court standard for finding the media guilty of libeling officials | |
| 44027463 | Right of reply rule | If a person is attacked on a broadcast, other than in a regular news program, that person has the right to reply over that same station. | |
| 44027464 | Routine Stories | media stories about events that are regularly covered by reporters | |
| 44027465 | Selective Attention | the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect | |
| 44027466 | Sound Bite | a very short speech | |
| 44027467 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 | Deregulated large portions of the media marketplace, especially radio | |
| 44027468 | Trial Balloon | Tests the public reaction to policy or appointments by releasing information to the media and gaugin public reaction | |
| 44027469 | Visuals | appearing on a news broadcast or at an event | |
| 44027470 | White House Press Corps | Reporters regularly assigned to cover the president | |
| 44027471 | "Yellow Journalism" | sensational news stories |
