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| hostile media phenomenon |
DEF: The idea that supporters of a candidate or issue tend to feel that media coverage is biased against their position, regardless of whether coverage is actually unfair.
EX: Being a Democratic supporter and thinking that every political media broadcast is favoring the Republican candidate.
SIG: Shows that even though many Americans consider the media biased, the problem is not media coverage itself, so much as how this coverage is perceived. |
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| media effects |
DEF: The influence of media coverage on average citizens' opinions and actions.
EX: Filtering, slant, priming, and framing.
SIG: Influences people's political beliefs. |
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| by-product theory of information transmission |
DEF: The idea that many Americans acquire political information unintentionally rather than by seeking it out.
EX: Someone could find political information on the internet when originally getting on the internet for a different purpose.
SIG: Typically people don't seek out political information and therefore most of the time learn it accidentally. Helps inform people who don't have much interest in politics. |
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| leak |
DEF: The release of either classified or politically embarrassing information by a government employee to a member of the press.
EX: A government employee told a journalist about a secret CIA prison.
SIG: How media gets their hands on classified information. |
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| equal time provision |
DEF: An FCC regulation requiring broadcast media to provide equal airtime on any non-news programming to all candidates running for an office.
EX: If one presidential candidate gets an hour on a TV channel then the opposing candidate also gets an hour of airtime.
SIG: Prevents broadcast media from being biased. |
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| fairness doctrine |
DEF: An FCC regulation requiring broadcast media to present several points of view to ensure balanced coverage.
EX: Radio would feature talk shows and interviews featuring a wide range of political figures.
SIG: Required radio and TV stations to offer a variety of political views in their programming. |
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| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
DEF: A government agency created in 1934 to regulate American radio stations, and later expanded to regulate television, wireless communications technologies, and other broadcast media.
EX: Fairness doctrine and equal time provision.
SIG: FCC regulations reflected the assumption that the airways were public property, so no one had an inherent right to operate a radio or TV station. Rather, the owners of these stations were expected to serve the public interest, as defined by the FCC. |
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| yellow journalism |
DEF: A style of newspaper popular in the late 1800s used in order to increase readership.
EX: Sensationalized stories, bold headlines, and illustrations.
SIG: Created a new type of newspaper that help increase the number of people who read newspaper and therefore kept more people informed about political events. |
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| mass media |
DEF: Sources that provide information to the average citizen.
EX: Newspapers, television networks, radio stations, and Web sites.
SIG: Make political information available to the average American and describes the dramatic changes occurring in new forms of media, and how these changes affect not only the amount of political information available and how it is delivered, but also how people use this information. |
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