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| journalistic exposés of corruption, wrongdoing, or mismanagement in government, business, and other institutions of society. |
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| An organization founded for the telegraphic dissemination of news in 1848. |
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| Concise and catchy phrases that attract media coverage. |
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| Writings that are false and malicious and are intended to damage an individual. |
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| the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel. |
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| Government actions to restrict publication of a magazine, newspaper, or books on grounds of libel, obscenity, or other legal violations prior to actual publication of the work. |
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| was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. |
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| Information provided to the media by an anonymous source as a way of testing the reaction to a potential policy or appointment. |
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| Words that reflect a value judgment, used to persuade the listener without making an argument. |
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| federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirement that broadcasters who sell time to any political candidate must make equal time availible to opposing candidates at the same price |
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| A regulation by the FCC permitting a person the right to respond if attacked on a broadcast other than a regular news program |
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| The tendency of people to see what they like and ignore what they do not like. |
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| In 1971, the Court faced these issues again in a case brought by the New York Times. The newspaper had obtained a copy of documents known as “The Pentagon Papers”—an internal Defense Department report that detailed government deception with regard to the Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers surfaced at a time when the American people were deeply divided on the question of United States involvement in the war. The New York Times fought for the right to publish the papers under the umbrella of the 1st Amendment |
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| The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) broadcasts proceedings of the U.S. Congress, as well as other public events and programs, on Cable Television. |
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| Public events regularly covered by reporters. |
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| Public ecents not regularly covered by reporters. |
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| A type of news story that involves information not usually made public which requires investigative work on the part of a reporter or a leak by some public official. |
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| disclosure of embargoed information in advance of its official release, or the unsanctioned release of confidential information. |
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| The tendency of the national media to be suspicious of officials and eager to reveal unflattering stories about them. |
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| Information from a government official who can be quoted by name. |
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| Information from an official that can be printed but not attributed at all. |
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| feeding frenzy pack journalism |
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| Intense media coverage of a scandal or event that blocks out most other news |
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| new york times co. v sullivan 1964 |
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| was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that established the actual malice standard, which has to be met before press reports about public officials can be considered to be defamation and libel; and hence allowed free reporting of the civil rights campaign |
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| federal communications commission |
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| is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute |
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| is the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years. The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other. |
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| legislation designed to protect reporters' privilege. |
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| above or below the fold stories |
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| It is the portion of the website that is viewable without any further action. But in this modern age, the concept of the fold is difficult to pin down |
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| freedom of information act |
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| is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. |
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