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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 attack journalism | -is usually the term applied to journalists that focus on personal scandals |
| community needs | citizens can choose what they want to hear or see without the government's shaping the content of each station's programming. |
| Equal time rule | states that if a station sells time to one candidate, it must be willing to sell equal time to all other candidates. |
| Fairness doctrine | required broadcasters to give time to opposing views if they broadcast a pro- gram giving one side of a controversial issue. |
| FCC | federal communications commission prohibits people form operating more than one newspaper, AM or FM radio stations, or tv stations in a given markets and companies cannot own more than 12 stations in the country |
| Freedom of Information Act | is a federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States Government. |
| Loaded Language | words to persuade people of something without actually making a clear argument for it. |
| Official Secrets Act | is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, and Malaysia and formerly in New Zealand for legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security. |
| Selective Attention | where the citizen sees and hears only what he or she wants to they ignore or get irritated by messages that are not in accord with existing beliefs |
| Sound bite | a video clip of a presidential contender speaking |
| Telecommunications Act of 1996 | allowed one company to own as many as eight stations in large markets (five in smaller ones) and as many as it wished nationally. |
| Right of reply rule | states that if a person is attacked on a broadcast program (not regular news), he can reply on that same program. |
| Trail Balloon | is information sent out to the media in order to observe the reaction of an audience |
| Visuals | filmed stories |
| White House Press Corps | The White House press corps is a group of men and women who are closest to the president, always there whenever anything newsworthy occurs. |
| ABC, NBC, CBS | came to dominate the news market, covering all the events with their massive influence, but recently, due to the Internet and other forms of media, their power has declined. |
| MSNBC, FOX News. CNN | three most popular cable networks |
| Media Bias | refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, in the selection of which events and stories are reported and how they are covered. |
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