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| regularly assigned venues that news reporters cover on an ongoing basis |
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| the amount of information a communication technology can deliver to its audience. Newspapers have much higher carrying capacities than do television news programs. |
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| the widespread suspicion among reporters that presidents will lie to the media when doing so serves their interest and they think they can get away with it. |
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| a "fairness" rule establised by the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that broadcasters offer balanced coverage of controversial issues. If a radio or television station sells or gives airtime to one candidate for political office, it must provide the other candidates with equal time. |
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| rule that assures that different points of view on controversial issues have access to the airwaves. |
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| the legal right of each member of Congress to send offical mail postage-free under his or her signature. |
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| increasingly popular, nontraditional source of political information that combines news and entertainment. Examples include talk shows, political comedy, and MTV. |
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| strategically consequential information given to reporters on the condition that its source not be identified by name. |
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| a method of news gathering in which news reporters all follow the same story in the smae way because they read each other's copy for validation of their own. |
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| a catchy phrase or slogan that encapsulates a politician's message, broadcast especially on television news programs. |
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| policy announced by the president in order to test public opinion and floated either by members of Congress or the media. |
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| the cost of transmitting a news product to a consumer |
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| style of journalism born of intense competition and characterized by screaming headlinesand sensational stories. Coining at the end of the nineteeth century, the term referred to the yellow ink in which the New York World's comic strips were printed. |
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