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        | list of issues that need to be address |  | 
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        | attempt to influence the prioritization of that agenda list |  | 
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        | your assign location to cover as journalist |  | 
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        | amateur journalist and untrained journalist |  | 
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        | new york times co. v. sullivan actual malice=wins
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        | higher calling of news gathering they have a role to educate, inform, and protect the public
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        | undercover to experience the news |  | 
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        | (paper turns yellow over time) sensationalism scandal longering |  | 
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        | setting a stage for presenting a news story |  | 
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        | cast wide net, catch large audience, a collection of unfilter news story. |  | 
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        | Correspondents (broadcasting) |  | Definition 
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        | Wire service (broadcasting) |  | Definition 
 
        | transport news to headquarter |  | 
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        | go after niche(specialize) market |  | 
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        | Difference between broadcasting and narrow casting |  | Definition 
 
        | who are you targeting, easier to motorized |  | 
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        | restricted access only, with rules invitation, confined questions on given subject, controlled/restrict
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        | tributed to its original interviewee and by names, report+name |  | 
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        | story reported anonymous or other attribution |  | 
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        | an offering of an official statement or position |  | 
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        | people's advocate (people's little helper) |  | 
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        | a journalism that check and make sure the story is correct and accurate |  | 
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        | Opposition researcher (troubleshooting) |  | Definition 
 
        | know anything on the opponent in campaign can dig up |  | 
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        | profession of collecting and distributing news |  | 
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        | coherence about the values and belief about the gov. |  | 
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        | GOP republican party, elephant mascot, privet sector (individual), small gov't, fiscal responsibility, balance budget, love tax cuts, high national defense/security |  | 
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        | democratic party, donkey mascot, liberties, public sector, big government, big program-social/welfare,"safety net" to ladder of success, high environmental/economy(domestic issues) |  | 
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        | 0 political party, small government, hate taxes, laissez-faire, fiercely competitive/frugal, global/free market economy in crisis=money |  | 
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        | big government-liberties, promote traditional values and belief, individual, 0 political parties |  | 
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        | inaccurate, can often be messed with, made up |  | 
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        | conduct many times, #1 self-destruct mechanism in american politic today |  | 
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        | with ulterior motive, design to get between the candidate and push them away |  | 
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        | 18 months to 3 years, impractical |  | 
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        | unscientific poll (straw polls) |  | Definition 
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        | no political candidates, no political issues, have FEC laws |  | 
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        | 501 (C)(4)(political action committee) |  | Definition 
 
        | have political candidates, no political issues have FEC laws |  | 
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        | no political candidates, have political issues |  | 
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        | attempt to influence government, similar situated people who share a common goal |  | 
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        | try to control government, goes with interest group |  | 
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        | make members wealthy, economically benefit its member |  | 
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        | just want to do good work, carry out their civic duty |  | 
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        | attempt to influence legislature, executive, and the law itself |  | 
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        | a group has a meeting with government face to face |  | 
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        | when somebody appeals to the people to contact representative in government |  | 
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        | battle of ads, competing in advertisement on the web |  | 
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        | interest group that lost sight of what is in the public interest |  | 
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        | BCRA 2012(Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) |  | Definition 
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        | hard to spend, fully regulated by the FDC, can only be use for election |  | 
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        | collection of Academic of political scientist and government official past or present, try to get together to solve political problems |  | 
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        | movement of people into government of private sector, #1 problem for Texas |  | 
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        | Graying of the American Workforce |  | Definition 
 
        | #1 problem of the economy government |  | 
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        | members does not want to contribute |  | 
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        | from 1964 76.9 million Americans |  | 
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        | talks about your candidate |  | 
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        | rarely mention the candidate, put opponent in a bad situation |  | 
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        | splice the positive ads and negative ads together |  | 
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        | one party attempts to foresee and neutralize potentially damaging criticism from another party by being the first to confront troublesome issues. |  | 
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        | determined the rules for becoming a state |  | 
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        | proportional winner gets majority |  | 
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        | making themselves look better |  | 
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