APGOV.13Martinez,Cecilia

Question 1

agenda setting

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theory describes the “ability to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda”. With agenda setting being a social science theory, it also attempts to make predictions.

Question 2

citizen journalists

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based upon public citizens “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.”

Question 3

content regulations

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speech or expression that is based on the substance of the message being communicated, rather than just the manner or method in which the message being expressed.

Question 4

deep background

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a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as “news sources”.

Question 5

equal time rule

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specifies that U.S. radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it.

Question 6

framing

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the action of framing something.

frames collectively.

Question 7

mass media

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a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

Question 8

muckraking

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the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.

Question 9

media effects

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communication theory and sociology, media influence and media effects are topics relating to mass media and media culture effects on individual or audience thought, attitudes and behavior.

Question 10

news media

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news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

Question 11

narrowingcasting

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traditionally been understood as the dissemination of information to a … on this change specifically in Los Angeles and how such a content directed towards a much more narrowed audience affected social culture.

Question 12

off the record

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You are legally entitled to contest your traffic tickets, but city and municipal governments make the process inconvenient and cumbersome.

Question 13

on background

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usually means that a reporter can use the information you give them, but cannot name or quote you directly. That’s different than “off-the-record,” which theoretically means that the information you share with a reporter cannot be used in any way.

Question 14

on the record

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The latest trends in British and European politics. Host: John Humphrys.

Question 15

press briefing

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A news conference or press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions.

Question 16

press conference

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press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions.

Question 17

press release

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news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy

Question 18

prior restraint

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judicial suppression of material that would be published or broadcast, on the grounds that it is libelous or harmful. In US law, the First Amendment severely limits the ability of the government to do this.

Question 19

right of rebuttal

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Rule states that a person who is attacked on public television or radio must be given a chance to respond to the attack on the air.

Question 20

yellow journalism

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journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.