Media Vocabulary Terms
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- a journalist who digs into a story to find the truth (by exploiting an organization)
- muckraker
- a syndicated news company who provides unbiased news reports to many newspapers in America
- Associated Press
- sensationalized journalism technique
- yellow journalism
- ABC, NBC, and CBS; most of America watched these until recently with cable
- "Big Three" networks
- video clip of a presidential candidate speaking
- sound bites
- a false publication that damages a person's reputation
- libel
- the expression of injurious, malicious statements about someone
- defamation
- prevention of a statement from being published
- prior restraint
- top secret papers kept about Vietnam
- the Pentagon Papers
- information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience, usually with news leaks
- trial balloon
- persuasion with words without making clear arguments for it
- loaded language
- if a station sells time to one candidate, it must sell equal time to another
- equal time rule
- if a person is attacked on a broadcast, he or she has a right to reply
- right-of-reply rule
- if a broadcaster endorses a candidate, he or she has a right to reply
- political editorializing rule
- broadcasters have to give time to opposing views
- fairness doctrine
- giving attention to something
- selective attention
- giving an endorsement to a candidate through an editorial
- editorial endorsement
- cable news network that shows unedited broadcastings of Congress
- C-SPAN
- coverage of a normal public event
- routine stories
- an article that a reporter takes the initiative to investigate
- feature stories
- a story that involves a news leak; information not usually made public
- insider stories
- news that politicians give hopefully to gain recognition for doing so
- news leaks
- press that is suspicious of officialdom and wants embarrassing stories
- adversarial press
- on the record where the official is quoted by name; what the official says cannot be printed
- "Off/on the record"
- what the official says cannot be attributed to him or her; what the officials says cannot be attributed to anyone
- "On (deep) background"
- media’s excited activity around an issue or person
- feeding frenzy
- news becoming homogeneous where reporters are reliant on each other for news
- pack journalism
- newspapers could not be sued for libel unless they knew what they were printing was untrue
- NY Times v. Sullivan (1964)
- organization that regulates broadcasting media in US
- FCC
- change in regulations that had not changed since the 1930’s
- Telecommunications Act
- laws that protect journalists from revealing their sources
- shield law
- stories that matter based upon their location on the front page of the newspaper
- "Above" or "Below the fold" stories
- government information being made available to the public
- Freedom of Information Act (1974)