Media:Key Terms

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Across
  1. 7. A rule that specifies that American radio and broadcasting must provide equivalent access to competing political candidates.
  2. 10. Regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, etc. Goal is to promote connectivity.
  3. 11. Misrepresent facts and use them in order to distort information and to show a certain viewpoint.
  4. 13. The theory that the media has an affect on how the public perceives certain groups. It forms their judgments.
  5. 14. A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics
  6. 15. A news agency that supplies information by wire to newspapers, radio, and television
Down
  1. 1. A style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.
  2. 2. The media may use certain events to project a different meaning to what is truly going on.
  3. 3. contest or competition; the primary election
  4. 4. laws that allow reporters to conceal a source's identity. Statutes that make communications between reporters and informants confidential, allowing reporters to protect the identity of any person who reveals information to them.
  5. 5. a ruthless form of journalism
  6. 6. news about politics, concerning issues, welfare, economics, international relations, and scientific developments.
  7. 8. news that aren’t so concerning, such as information about celebrities and human-interest stories.
  8. 9. Determines the type of information that gets displayed on the media
  9. 12. mandated broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance.