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the accepted responsibility of the media to protect
the public from deceitful, careless, incompetent and corrupt officials by
standing ready to expose any official who violates accepted legal, ethical or
performance standards.
watchdog role
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individuals or institutions which control access to
positions of power and regulate the flow of information and political
influence.
gatekeeping
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the power of the media through news coverage to
focus the public's attention and concern on particular events, problems,
issues, personalities, and so forth.
agenda setting
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the quality of preferring concepts or facts one
wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true
truthiness
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cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the United States
during the mid-19th century.
penny press
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presents little or no legitimate well-researched
news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers
yellow journalism
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typed, printed, and published piece of paper,
magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, showing articles on
current events
newsmagazine
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a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
fireside chats
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Respect and admiration felt for someone or
something on the basis of their achievements or quality.
prestige
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A newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard
newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs
tabloid press
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Hard new generally refers to up-to-the-minute news and
events that are reported immediately, while soft news is background information
or human-interest stories. Politics, war, economics and crime used to be
considered hard news, while arts, entertainment and lifestyles were considered
soft news.
Hard/soft news
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the concept in economics that refers to individuals
being provided incentive to relinquish something (e.g. capital, expertise,
labour) for deployment to a productive purpose.
Private ownership/profit motive-
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determine audience size
Nielsen Ratings
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required the holders of broadcast licenses to both
present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that
was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced.
fairness doctrine
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specifies that U.S. radio and television broadcast
stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political
candidates who request it
equal time rule
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(reduced barriers to ownership ip meeeia/sectors/market
share, Planet Viacom, Clear Channel)
telecommunications act of 1996
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GE-NBC, News Corp-Fox, Disney-ABC, Viacom, Time Warner-CNN,
CBS-CBS
The Big 6
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Of sufficient interest or importance to the public
to warrant reporting in the media.
newsworthiness
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being at the right time
timeliness
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an often derogatory term used to describe the
tendency of news reporting to become .
pack journalism
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amount of time spent on news content
News hole
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a metaphor used by journalists and other writers to
illustrate the placing of the most important information first within a text.
inverted pyramid style
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a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs
are amplified or reinforced by transmission inside an "enclosed"
space.
echo chamber
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judgment based on observable phenomena and
uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
objectivity
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between government agencies and private industry
cozy relationship
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A model of reporting in which the journalist's role
involves adopting a stance of opposition and a combative style in order to
expose perceived wrongdoings.
Adversial Journalism
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any method of interviewing designed to entrap
interviewees into making statements that are damaging or discreditable to their
cause
Gotcha Journalism
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neutrality to the point of bias, reliance on
official sources
Objective Bias
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