Media: Key Terms

2. A law that protects witnesses from revealing certain information, especially in court.
4. The process whereby news media highlight, emphasize and give more prominence to a specific aspect of a news story.
5. The term used to describe the revolutionary business tactic of producing newspapers which sold for one cent.
7. Refers to topics that are usually timely, important and consequential, such as politics, international affairs and business news.
8. Regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire
10. Describes the tendency of the national media to focus on who is winning at any given time during a presidential campaign.
13. A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing.
15. Requires broadcasters to treat political candidates equally in terms of air time.
17. To distort (information) by rendering it unfaithfully or incompletely, especially in order to reflect a particular viewpoint.

1. became concerned that the monopoly audience control of the three main networks, NBC, ABC and CBS, could misuse their broadcast licenses to set a biased public agenda. The Fairness Doctrine mandated broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance.
3. Defined as information that is primarily entertaining or personally useful.
6. To appear or happen gradually or to a limited degree: News filtered down to us during the day.
9. A type of increased increasingly popular media coverage focused on political scandals
11. Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
12. When news content suggests to news audiences that they ought to use specific issues as benchmarks for evaluating the performance of leaders and governments.
14. Service: A news agency that supplies syndicated news by wire to newspapers, radio, and television stations.
16. The means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short time,