Wilson Vocab Chapter 10

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