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