Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.

Partisan Press

Newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style newspapers mass-produced in the United States from the 1830s on-wards.

Penny Press

A news agency that supplies sndicated news by wire to newspapers, radio, and television stations.

Wire Service

Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

Yellow Journalism

The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded away.

Muckraking

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

Shock Jock

The world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications

Global Village