Examples of Roles of the media
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Marshawn Lynch’s silence has become big news: Gatekeeper
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Anthony Weiner sent vulgar pictures: Watchdog
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Media helped to make the reputation of Barack Obama: Scorekeeper
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Media treated the 2012 election as a horse-race: Scorekeeper
Media Regulations
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Key reason it is more difficult to regulate print news: earliest form of media, most protections
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Television and radio are regulated by this government agency: FCC
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Radio must offer to sell time to both parties: Equal time rule
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Rush Limbaugh would be out of a job if this rule still applied: Fairness doctrine
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Companies cannot own more then 8 papers in large cities according to this law: Telecommunications Act
History
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Authors of the Federalist papers: Jay, Hamilton, Madison
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Owned the papers at the beginning of the US: Party Press
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Changed from a magazine about culture and science to what Kurt Vonnegut called a “…harrowingly explicit sex manual.” -Cosmo
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In Reply, he stated: “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” -Hearst
Media Impact
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media today, which seeks to uncover the dirty little secrets about government officials: Adversarial press
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Now we have gavel to gavel coverage with this: C-Span
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The act of government leaking news to see how the public responds: Trial
Balloon
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Brought down the Nixon administration: Watergate
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Polls are used exhaustively with this type of journalism: Horse-race journalism
Terms
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Radio or video clip of someone speaking: Sound bite
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Someone’s online opinion or rants: Blog
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The Big Three tv media outlets: ABC, NBC, CBS
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What the official says can be used but not attributed to anybody: On deep background