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| What does the term "gatekeeper" mean? |
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| Media influences what subjects become national poltical issues, and for how long they will last. |
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| Series, or log, of discussion items on a page of the World Wide Web. |
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| What does the term scorekeeper mean? |
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| National media keeps track of and help make political reputations. |
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| Freedom of the press applies to state governments, so that they cannot impose prior restraint on newspapers. |
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| New York Times v. Sullivan |
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| Public officials may not win a libel suit unless they can prove that the statement was made knowing to be false or with reckless disregard of its truth. |
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| A newspaper cannot be rquired to give someone a right to reply to one if its stories. |
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| Information leaked to the media to test public reaction to a possible policy. |
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| Words that imply a value judgement, used to persuade a reader without having made a serious argument. |
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| Politicians have become more heavily dependent on the media as ... |
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| Political party organizations have declined. |
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| The federalists created which newspaper? |
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| The Gazette of the United States. |
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| The Antifederalists created which newspaper? |
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| The development of the _______________ enabled publishers to print thousands of copies of a newspaper cheaply and quickly. |
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| The invention of the ______ in the 1840s meant that news from Washington could be flashed to other cities almost instantly. |
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| In 1860 the _________ was established. |
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| Government Printing Office. |
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| A way to attract a large readership. |
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| Sensationalism: violence, romance, patriotism, exposes of the government, politics, business, & society. |
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| Newspaper space is expensive. |
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| What do the majority of todays magazines focus on? |
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| Popular entertainment and leisure activities. |
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| Radio came in to the national scene in the ______ television in the late ________. |
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| 1920s, 1940s respectively. |
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| What is the newest source of electronic news? |
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| No one can ban, regulate, keep facts, opinions, and nonsense off the internet. |
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| Newspapers unlike radio and television are competitive. |
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| False, the opposite is true. |
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| What are the political affiliations of most writers for the national press? |
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| There has been a steep incline in the numbers of daily newspapers that serve large communities. |
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| False, in fact it has been a steep decline. |
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| The least competitive media outlets are almost entirely free from what? |
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| Which media outlets need no license to publish? |
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| Magazines and newspapers. |
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| An area easily reached by tv signals. |
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| A much higher percentage of Senate than of House candidates use television ads. |
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| Very few _____ newspapers have a national audience. |
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| When was radio and tv coverage allowed on the Senate floor? |
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| American government in the leakiest in the world. |
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| What causes leaks in the government? |
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| Seperate institutions all sharing and competing for the power, leaking stories to make other branches look bad. |
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| A radio or video clip of someone speaking. |
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| An FCC rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one candidate, it must sell equal time to other candidates. |
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| Media stories about events that, though public, are not regularly covered by reporters. |
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| Media stories about events that a regularly covered by reporters. |
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| Media stories about events that are usually not made public. |
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| The tendency of the national media to be suspicious of officials and eagar to reveal unflattering stories about them. |
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| A public official's statement to a reporter that is given on condition that the official not be named. |
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| The reporter can quote the official by name. |
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| What the official says can be used but not attributed to anybody, even an anonymous source. |
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| What the official says may not be used. |
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