Chapter 1 vocab

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partisan press

early american newspapers that aligned themselves with one political party. this was common place during the revolutionary period.

penny press

newspapers, from the mid-19th century, that were filled with news and read by a mass audience, included advertising, and sold for a penny

wire services

a service that provides, for a free, news from around the world to publications that describe to it.

yellow journalism

a sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming headlines, frauds and endless promotions of the newspapers

muckraking

the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.

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.

Computer assisted reporting

describes the use of computers to gather and analyze the data necessary to write news stories. The spread of computers, software and the Int