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| Sources like newspapers, television networks, radio stations, and web sites that provide information to the average citizen |
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| An organization that gathers news and sells it to other media outlets. The invention of the telegraph in the early 1800s made this type of service possible |
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| A style of newspaper popular in the late 1800s, featuring sensationalized stories, bold headlines, and illustrations in order to increase readership |
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| Investigative Journalists |
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| Reporters who dig deeply into a particular topic of public concern, often targeting government failures and inefficiencies |
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| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
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| A government agency created in 1934 to regulate American radio stations, and later expand to regulate television, wireless communications technologies, and other broadcast media |
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| An FCC regulation requiring broadcast media to present several points of view to ensure balanced coverage. It was created in the late 1940s and eliminated in 1987 |
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| An FCC regulation requiring broadcast media to provide equal airtime on any non-news programming to all candidates running for an office |
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| The trend toward single-company ownership of several media sources in one area |
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| The trend towards single-company ownership of several kinds of media outlets |
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| Companies that control a large number of media sources across several types of media outlets |
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| Media sources that predate the internet, such as newspapers, magazines, television, and radio |
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| The time between the release of information and its publication, like the twenty-four hours between issues of a daily newspaper |
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| Normalization Hypothesis: |
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| The idea that media source will increasingly make their news available online as more people begin using the internet |
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| The release of either classified or politically embarrassing information by a government employee to a member of the press |
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| Events at which politicians speak to journalists and, in most cases, answer their questions afterward |
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| On Background (Off the record) |
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| Terms describing comments a politician makes to the press on the condition that they can be reported only if there are not attributed to that politician |
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| Legislation, which exists in some states but not at the federal level, that gives reporters the right to refuse to name the sources of their information |
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| By-product theory of information transmission |
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| The idea that many Americans acquire political information unintentionally rather than by seeking it out |
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| The influence of media coverage on average citizens’ opinions and actions |
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| The influence on public opinion that results from journalists’ and editors’ decisions about which of many potential news stories to report |
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| The imbalance in a story that covers one candidate or policy favorably without providing similar coverage to the other side |
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| The influence on the public’s general impressions caused by positive or negative coverage of a candidate or issue |
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| The influence on the public opinion caused by the way a story in presented or covered, including the details, explanations, and context offered in the report |
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| The idea that supporters of a candidate or issue tend to feel that media coverage is biased against their position, regardless of whether coverage is actually unfair |
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| A type of increasingly popular media coverage focused on political scandals and controversies, which causes a negative public opinion of political figures |
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| A description of the type of election coverage that focused more on poll results and speculation about a likely winner than on substantive difference between the candidates |
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| Media coverage that aims to entertain or shock, often through sensationalized reporting or by focusing on a candidate or politician’s personality |
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| Media coverage focused on facts and important issues surrounding a campaign |
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