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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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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What used to be largest form of media

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Newspaper

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What is a liberal newspaper

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The Washington Post

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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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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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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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What form of media Gathers reports and sells them to papers

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Wire services

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What form of media do people just talk

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Talk radio

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Speaking to a select group

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Narrowcasting

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What does the press report on

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Policy agenda

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What is most media after

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Profit

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What is a headshot reporting news?

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Talking head

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Condensing a story to fit a very short time slot

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When one company owns a bunch of different media outlets

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

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What agency regulates broadcast networks

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The FCC, Federal Communications Commission

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Accusations that media is liberally biased
Liberal bias
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Who writes about wrongdoings, not gossip
Muckrakers
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What's the number one constraint on journalism
The audience
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What tests the media waters
A child bowling
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Who decides what is important in the media
Gate keeper
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Who keeps constituents privy on polls
Scorekeeper
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What are sources that Are kept secret
Confidential sources
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What do confidential sources give
News leaks
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What is a staged press event
Media event
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An expression of a preference by significant number of people
Public opinion
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These measure public opinion
Polls
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What poll is biased because it doesn't reflect the whole group
Straw poll
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What is taken after you vote
An exit poll
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What kind of poll is completely random
Scientific poll
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What is the polls margin of error
Sampling error
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The father of scientific polling
George Gallop
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Influential people are
Opinion leaders
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What is a tool to persuade people's emotions and reasoning
Propaganda
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What are endorsements from celebrities
Testimonials
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A facade famous people use to show people that they're equal With them
Plain folks
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What is nonsense fluff politicians use
Glittering generalities
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A symbol carried through a campaign
Transfer
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Not giving the whole story
Cardstacking
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System of beliefs
Ideology
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Ideology that resists change
Conservative
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Ideology that wants change
Liberal
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Ideology wants less government intervention
Libertarians
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Ideology wants more government
Populist