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media/parties
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| media | sources of our news and information about curren tevents |
| watchdog | one who stands guard and sounds an alert if something is wrong |
| expose | story designed to expose wrongdoing |
| unbiased | not favoring any veiw |
| soundbite | something said in 15 seconds or less |
| gatekeeper | one who stands guard at a gate and decided who gets threw |
| medium | a method of communicating information, entertainment, and other messages |
| mass media | methods of communicating with large numbers of people |
| commercial | word that means for profit |
| biased | favoring one view over another |
| political parties | an organized group of people who share simialar political veiws and work to influence government |
| write-in-candidates | a candidate whose name a voter must hand write on the ballet |
| public policy | the stand the government takes about how issues should be handled |
| minority party | political party that does not have a majority of the elected members |
| third party | a political party other than republican or demacratic |
| platform | set of statements describing a party's views on major issues |
| political views | a person's ideas how government should run and how issues should be solved |
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