Across
- 2. A type of increased increasingly popular media coverage focused on political scandals
- 4. Refers to topics that are usually timely, important and consequential, such as politics, international affairs and business news.
- 5. Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
- 6. A law that protects witnesses from revealing certain information, especially in court.
- 8. Defined as information that is primarily entertaining or personally useful.
- 11. Requires broadcasters to treat political candidates equally in terms of air time.
- 14. The term used to describe the revolutionary business tactic of producing newspapers which sold for one cent.Wire Service: A news agency that supplies syndicated news by wire to newspapers, radio, and television stations.
- 15. The process whereby news media highlight, emphasize and give more prominence to a specific aspect of a news story.
- 16. A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing.
Down
- 1. Regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire
- 3. 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.
- 7. Describes the tendency of the national media to focus on who is winning at any given time during a presidential campaign.
- 9. To distort (information) by rendering it unfaithfully or incompletely, especially in order to reflect a particular viewpoint.
- 10. To appear or happen gradually or to a limited degree: News filtered down to us during the day.
- 12. The means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short time,
- 13. When news content suggests to news audiences that they ought to use specific issues as benchmarks for evaluating the performance of leaders and governments.