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Mass Media And Public Opinion Flashcards

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Getting the dirt on a famous figure

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Yellow journalism

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What is newspapers put out by political parties

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Party press

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The media normal people read

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Popular press

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3
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When the press opposes news by investigative reporting

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Adversarial relationship

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What is reporting that investigates things

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Investigative reporting

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5
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What used to be largest form of media

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Newspaper

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6
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What is a liberal newspaper

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The Washington Post

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7
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What is a conservative newspaper

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Wall Street Journal

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What is a magazine that is overtly biased

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opinion magazine

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What is a magazine that is supposed to be objective

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Newsmagazine

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10
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Who gave weekly fireside chats and invented press conferences

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FDR

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What is a TV network such as cable, Fox, CNN

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Independent network

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12
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What is a TV network that is heavily regulated through licensing

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Broadcast network

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What are the two major wire services

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Associated Press and Reuters

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14
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What form of media Gathers reports and sells them to papers

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Wire services

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15
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What form of media do people just talk

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Talk radio

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16
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Speaking to a select group

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Narrowcasting

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17
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What does the press report on

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Policy agenda

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18
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What is most media after

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Profit

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19
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What is a headshot reporting news?

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Talking head

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20
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Condensing a story to fit a very short time slot

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Soundbite

21
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When one company owns a bunch of different media outlets

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Chain

22
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What are places where news is regularly made and reporters always are

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Beat

23
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What agency regulates broadcast networks

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The FCC, Federal Communications Commission

24
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Accusations that media is liberally biased

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Liberal bias

25
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Who writes about wrongdoings, not gossip

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Muckrakers

26
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What’s the number one constraint on journalism

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The audience

27
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What tests the media waters

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A child bowling

28
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Who decides what is important in the media

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Gate keeper

29
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Who keeps constituents privy on polls

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Scorekeeper

30
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What are sources that Are kept secret

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Confidential sources

31
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What do confidential sources give

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News leaks

32
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What is a staged press event

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Media event

33
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An expression of a preference by significant number of people

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Public opinion

34
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These measure public opinion

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Polls

35
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What poll is biased because it doesn’t reflect the whole group

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Straw poll

36
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What is taken after you vote

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An exit poll

37
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What kind of poll is completely random

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Scientific poll

38
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What is the polls margin of error

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Sampling error

39
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The father of scientific polling

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George Gallop

40
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Influential people are

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Opinion leaders

41
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What is a tool to persuade people’s emotions and reasoning

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Propaganda

42
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What are endorsements from celebrities

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Testimonials

43
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A facade famous people use to show people that they’re equal With them

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Plain folks

44
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What is nonsense fluff politicians use

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Glittering generalities

45
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A symbol carried through a campaign

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Transfer

46
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Not giving the whole story

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Cardstacking

47
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System of beliefs

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Ideology

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Ideology that resists change

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Conservative

49
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Ideology that wants change

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Liberal

50
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Ideology wants less government intervention

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Libertarians

51
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Ideology wants more government

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Populist

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