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Chapter 1 Vocab
8 cards·by Michelle
early American newspapers that aligned themselves with one political part. This was
commonplace during the Revolutionary period.
partisan 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
penny press
a service that provides, for a fee, news from around the world to publications that subscribe
to it.
wire service
a sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming
headlines, fraids, and endless promotions.
yellow journalism
journalism that crusades for social justice or to expose wrongdoing
muckraking
a radio disk jockey who entertains his or her audience by saying outrageous, often vulgar or
offensive, things about people or situations
shock jock
the concept, so named by Marshall McLuhan, of the world as having become a more tightly
interrelated community because of simultaneous
global village
the use of various news databases and other resources on the Internet to facilitate the
gathering of certain kinds of news information
computer-assisted reporting