Approaching Democracy chapter 12
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- equal time rule
- a requirement that radio and television stations allow equal time to all candidates for office
- fairness doctrine
- a policy now abandoned, that radio and television stations provide time to all sides in programs of public interest
- federal communications commission (FCC)
- a government commission formed to allocate radio and television frequencies and regulate braodcasting procedures
- investigative jouralism
- the uncovering of corruption, scandal, conspiracy, and abuses of power in government and business; differs from standard press coverage in the depth of the coerage sought, the time spent researching the subject, and the shocking findings that often result from such reporting
- libel
- published material that damages a person's reputation or good name in an untruthful and malicious way. libelous material is not protected by the first amendment
- mass media
- the various media - newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet - through which information is transferred from its sources to large numbers of people
- muckracking
- a word used to describe a style of investigative reporting that uncovered many scandals and abuses
- prior restraint
- an action in which the government seeks to ban the publication of controversial material by the press before it is published; censorship
- right of rebuttal
- the right to refute the allegations presented on a radio or television station, free of charge, within a reasonable amount of time
- socialization
- the process b which people learn to conform to their society's norms and values
- yellow journalism
- brash, colorful, generiously illustrated, often lurid and sensationalized organs of half truth, innuendo, and sometimes outright lies, usually associated with the big-city daily newspapers of Josepth Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst