How Media Affects Politics

3. The way the media presents certain issues
5. tend to be middle-of-the-road ideologically; published weekly
7. Medium to revolutionize how we receive news; mainstream news media
11. The idea that political leaders must answer to the public for their actions
16. Individuals whose reputations are damaged on the air have the right to respond
20. If a station allows one candidate for office to buy or use airtime in an election campaign it must allow all candidates the same opportunity
22. Noncommercial networks which provide news and public affairs programming
23. A distrust of human nature and motives

1. A web log or anything from personal diaries to investigate journals
2. A proposed policy or plan that is leaked ahead of time to gauge public reaction
4. protect reporters from having to reveal their confidential sources
6. Cover political news, advertising, business, entertainment and other issues that cut into amount of political information given
8. A professional observer and commentator on politics
9. Filtering information through their own values and interests
10. Required stations to give free airtime to opposing sides when controversial issues were covered
12. Primarily used for entertainment; news is secondary
13. A movement in the media to bring citizens’ concerns and proposed solutions into reporting
14. Expose abuses of power by corporate managers and corrupt political bosses
15. Relies on dramatic reenactments or lighthearted conversation rather than airing serious discussion of issues
17. Journalists who decide, in a large part, what news gets covered and how
18. Confidential information revealed to the press
19. Short, snappy excerpt from a longer speech that easy to repeat on the news
21. Uses the printed words or electronic signals to transmit information from politicians to citizens