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The Media Flashcards

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yellow journalism

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relies on gossip, designed to sell, tabloids/redtops

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fleet street

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metonym for the British national press

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R. Murdoch

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owns the media, very dangerous

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4
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broadsheets

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The Times, The Guardian (most respectable), The Independent, Daily Mail (Royal family), The Sun (gossip, scandals)

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tabloids

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Daily Mirror, Daily Star (working classes), Daily Sport (bottom, soft porn, nonsense stories)

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BBC

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called ‘auntie’, always been there, the ‘‘beeb’’

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Ofcom

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monitors TV and newspapers

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pulp fiction

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trashy novels, cheap newspapers

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media

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means of communication that reach/influence a lot of people, e.g. radio, TV, newspapers, magazines (informative, ed., entertainment)

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press

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all media that print/broadcast news, no funding from the government, no state censorship

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advertising

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paid announcements in media/press

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The Times

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1785, report national and international news, ‘quality paper’

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Circulation

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distribution of copies among readers

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14
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tabloid

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small paper with lurid news, heavily illustrated

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broadsheet

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respectable paper, huge sheets

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Sun

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formerly ‘Daily Herald’ (1911), popular, superficial

17
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John Reith

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national radio established in 1922 under Reith, BBC, first director-general of the BBC

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Ofcom

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office of communication

19
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mid-market

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between ‘quality’ and ‘popular’ papers, e.g. Daily Mail, Express

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‘free newspapers’

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published weekly on local bases, financed by local ads., e.g. Metro

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Private Eye

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periodical paper, weekly journals

22
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Murdoch

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owns News International

23
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World Service

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BBC’s external services

24
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Channel 4

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advertising-financed terrestrial TV channel

25
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‘compacts’

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broadsheets becoming smaller

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‘hot metal’

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printing, metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine

27
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press barons

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A. Harmsworth, A. Pearson

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