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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