3.2b

Question 0

YouTube

Answer 0

An important source of communication for politicians

Many believe this activity may increase the governments transparency, it is unclear as to whether or not the new form will provide an opportunity for citizen input into the policymaking process

Question 1

“Fourth branch”

Answer 1

Mass media has become such an integral part of the political system that it is sometimes called this

It both reflects and influences public opinion

Question 2

Prior restraint

Answer 2

No government can place this on the press before stories are published

Question 3

Confidentiality of sources

Answer 3

The right to keep the sources for their information private (journalists)

Question 4

Federal Communications Commission

Answer 4

No one may operate a video or television station without a license from this

Question 5

Telecommunications act (1996)

Answer 5

Allowed one radio company to own as many as eight stations in large markets and as many as it wished nationally

Question 6

Equal time rule

Answer 6

Requires a station selling time to one candidate for office to make the same amount of time available to another

Question 7

Right of reply rule

Answer 7

Allows a person who is attacked on a broadcast the right to reply over that same station

Question 8

Fairness doctrine

Answer 8

Required broadcasters to give time to opposing views if they broadcast a program giving one side of a controversial issue
–doctrine was abolished by FCC in 1987 arguing that it inhibited the free discussion of issues

Question 9

Sound bites

Answer 9

Comments compressed into several-second segments

–electronic media has been criticized for forcing political figures and events to conform to these

Question 10

Spin doctor

Answer 10

One who tries to influence journalists with interpretations of events that are favorable to a particular candidate

Question 11

White House press corps

Answer 11

Assigned full-time to cover the activities of the president

Question 12

Press Secretary

Answer 12

Responsible for handling the press corps

and once or twice a day briefs them

Question 13

Agenda setting

Answer 13

The ability of the media to draw public attention to particular issues. Equally important are the issues that the media does not focus on

Question 14

Blogs

Answer 14

devote much time to political topics, and provide an interactive forum for people to express and react to political opinions

Question 15

Adversarial press

Answer 15

The tendency of the national media to be suspicious of officials and eager to reveal unflattering stories about them

Question 16

Background

Answer 16

A public officials statement to a reporter that is given on condition that the official not be named

Question 17

Blog

Answer 17

Series, or log, a discussion items on a page of the World Wide Web

Question 18

Feature story

Answer 18

Media story about events that, though public, are not regularly covered by reporters

Question 19

Horse-race journalism

Answer 19

News coverage that emphasizes who is ahead rather than the issues

Question 20

Insider story

Answer 20

Media story about events that are not usually made public

Question 21

Loaded language

Answer 21

Words that imply a value judgment; used to persuade a reader without having made a serious argument

Question 22

Routine story

Answer 22

media story about events that are regularly covered by reporters

Question 23

Selective attention

Answer 23

Paying attention only to those news stories with which one already agrees

Question 24

Sound bite

Answer 24

A radio or video clip, usually brief, of someone speaking

Question 25

Trial balloon

Answer 25

Information leaked to the media to test public reaction to a possible policy