Chapter 1

7 cards·by Jonathan Mendoza

partisan press

an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.

penny press

a very inexpensive or free publication, usu. a newspaper; also, the organization which prints such a publication

wire service

a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, t

yellow journalism

journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

muchracking

The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigativ

shock jock

a disc jockey on a talk-radio show who expresses opinions in a deliberately offensive or provocative way.

global village

the world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications.