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Media
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Media | Sources of our news and information about current events |
Watchdog | One who stands guard and sounds an alert if something is wrong |
Expose | Story designed to expose wrongdoing |
Unbiased | Not favoring any view |
Soundbite | Something said in 15 seconds or less |
Gatekeeper | One who stands guard at a gate and decides who gets to pass through |
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 Party | An organized group of people who share similar political views and work to influence government |
Write in candidate | A candidate whose name a voter must hand write on the ballot |
public policy | the stand the government takes about how issues should be handled |
minority party | Political party that doesn't have a majority of the elected members |
third party | a political party other than republican or democrat |
platform | Set of statements describing a party's view on major issues |
political views | a person's ideas about how government should run and how issues should be solved. |