How Media Affects Politics

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Across
  1. 1. Individuals whose reputations are damaged on the air have the right to respond
  2. 3. A movement in the media to bring citizens’ concerns and proposed solutions into reporting
  3. 5. Journalists who decide, in a large part, what news gets covered and how
  4. 7. Short, snappy excerpt from a longer speech that easy to repeat on the news
  5. 8. A professional observer and commentator on politics
  6. 10. Filtering information through their own values and interests
  7. 13. Relies on dramatic reenactments or lighthearted conversation rather than airing serious discussion of issues
  8. 14. protect reporters from having to reveal their confidential sources
  9. 15. Medium to revolutionize how we receive news; mainstream news media
  10. 17. A distrust of human nature and motives
  11. 18. 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
  12. 19. A proposed policy or plan that is leaked ahead of time to gauge public reaction
  13. 22. Primarily used for entertainment; news is secondary
Down
  1. 2. Required stations to give free airtime to opposing sides when controversial issues were covered
  2. 4. Uses the printed words or electronic signals to transmit information from politicians to citizens
  3. 6. Expose abuses of power by corporate managers and corrupt political bosses
  4. 8. The idea that political leaders must answer to the public for their actions
  5. 9. tend to be middle-of-the-road ideologically; published weekly
  6. 11. Cover political news, advertising, business, entertainment and other issues that cut into amount of political information given
  7. 12. The way the media presents certain issues
  8. 16. Noncommercial networks which provide news and public affairs programming
  9. 20. Confidential information revealed to the press
  10. 21. A web log or anything from personal diaries to investigate journals