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Chapter 12
The media
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Political Studies
12th Grade
09/24/2011

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Adversarial press
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The tendency of the national media to be suspicious of officials and eager to reveal unflattering stories about them
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Background story
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A public official's statement to a reporter that is given on condition that the official not be named
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Blog
Definition
A series, or log, of discussion items on a page of the web
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Equal time rule
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An fcc rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one candidate, then it must sell equal time to other candidates
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Feature stories
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Media stories about events that, though public, are not regularly covered by reporters
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Insider Stories
Definition
Media stories about events that are not usually made public
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Loaded language
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Words that imply a value judgement, used to persuade a reader without having made a serious argument
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Routine stories
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Media stories about events that are regularly covered by reporters
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Selective attention
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paying attention only to those news stories with which only one already agrees
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Sound bite
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A radio or video clip of someone speaking
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Trial balloon
Definition
information leaked to the media to test public reaction to a possible policy
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