AP Gov - Chapter 7
Terms
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- talking head
- A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera
- narrowcasting
- Media programming on TV or the Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience
- print media
- Newspapers and magazines
- trial balloons
- An international news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction
- sound bites
- Short video clips of approximately 15 seconds; typically all that is shown from a politician's speech or activities on the nightly television news.
- policy agenda
- The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time.
- high-tech politics
- A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers, as well as the political agenda itself, is increasingly shaped by technology.
- press conferences
- Meetings of public officials with reporters.
- broadcast media
- Television and radio
- chains
- Massive media conglomerates that control newspapers
- media event
- Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous.
- beats
- Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House.
- investigative journalism
- The use of detective-like reporting methods to unearth scandals.
- policy entrepreneurs
- People who invest their political "capital" in an issue.
- mass media
- Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication.