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12/04/2007

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gatekeeper
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media influences what subjects become national political issues, and for how long they last
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Scorekeeper
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national media keep track of and help make political reputations, help decide who is winning and loosing in Washington politics
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Watchdog
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media decides who is the person that needs to be watched out for in political races

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Near v. Minnesota (1931)
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Freedom of the press applies to state governments, so that they cannot impose prior restraint on newspapers 
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New York Times v. Sulivan (1964)
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Public officials cannot win a libel suit unless they can prove that the statement was made knowing it to be false or with reckless disregard of its truth
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Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974)
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A newspaper cannot be required to give someone a right to reply to one of its stories
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Equal time rule
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An FCC rule that if a broadcaster sells time to one canidate, it must sell equal time to other candidates
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trial balloon

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information leaked to the media to test public reaction to a possible policy
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loaded language
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Words that imply a value judgement, used to persuade a reader without having made serious arguement
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routine stories
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media stories about events that are regularly covered by reporters
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feature stories
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media stories about events that, though public, are not regularlly covered by reporters
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insider stories
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media stories about events that are not usually made public
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Adversarial press

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THe tendency of the national media to be suspicous of officials and eager to reveal unflattering stories about them
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background

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A public official's statement to a reporter that is not given on condition that the official not be named
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