American Government Ch 14
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 beat | regularly assigned venue that a news reporter covers on an ongoing basis |
| carrying capacity | the amount of information a communication technology can deliver to its audience |
| embedding | military media strategy of putting journalists among military units in the field |
| equal time | a "fairness" rule established by the Federal Comm Commission to ensure that broadcasters offer balances coverage of controversial issues |
| fairness doctrine | rule that assures that different points of view on controversial issues have access to the airwaves |
| franking privilege | the legal right of each member of congress to send official mail postage-free under his or her signature |
| infotainment | increasingly popular, nontraditional source of political information that combines news and entertainments, i.e. talk shows, political comedy programs |
| leak | strategically consequential information given to reporters on the condition that its source not be identified by name |
| libel | published falsehood or statement resulting in the defamation of someone's character |
| media bias | bias or slant in the selection of which news to report and how the news is reported |
| muckraking | journalistic investigation and exposure of scandals, corruption, and injustices, pioneered during the nineteenth C Progressive Era |
| news media | the organizations that gather, package and transmit the news through some proprietary communication technology |
| pack journalism | method of news gathering in which news reporters all follow the same story in the same way b/c they read each other's copy for validation of their own |
| prior restraint | government agency's act to prohibit the publication of material or speech before the fact. Courts forbid it except for extraordinary conditions |
| shield laws | laws that protect journalists from having to testify about their sources in court |
| slander | forms of bias and malicious information that damages another person's reputation |
| sound bite | catchy phrase or slogan that encapsulates a politician's message; broadcast especially on TV news programs |
| trial balloon | policy announced by the president in order to test public opinion and floated either by members of Congress or the media |
| unit cost | cost of transmitting a news product to a consumer |
| "yellow journalism" | style of journalism born of intense competition and characterized by screaming headlines and sensational stories |
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