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Media/Parties
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 medthod 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 | A orginised group of people who share similar political views and work to influence government. |
| Write-in-Canadites | A canadite 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 democrat. |
| Platform | Set of statement describing a party's views on major issues |
| Political Views | A person's ideas how government should run and how issues should be solved. |