_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.
Ratings/rating wars
Media coverage
Viewing figures
If people _________ or an idea, they ask or state that question or idea.
Speculation
Pose a question
Broadsheet
_________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.
Speculation
Tabloid
Scoop
A ________ is a time limit for any activity.
Deadline
Privacy
Source
A ________ is a tendency to show prejudice against one group and favouritism towards another or to be influenced so much by something that you do not judge things fairly.
Bias
Off the record
Popular press
________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.
Circulation figures
Pose a question
Viewing figures
A ________ is a brief excerpt from a text or performance that is meant to capture the interest and attention of an audience; a short sentence or phrase, usually from a politician's
Chequebook journalism
Off the record
Soundbite
_________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.
Libel laws
Popular press
Media coverage
To ________ means to provide an interpretation of (a statement or event, for example), especially in a way meant to sway public opinion; to draw out and twist (fibers) into thread.
Speculation
Spin
Bias
_________ protect people from _____ which is something written in a book or newspaper which wrongly damages somebody’s reputation.
Libel laws / libel
Privacy
Spin
A _________ is an exclusive newspaper story (i.e. a story that is published only in that particular paper)
Scoop
Soundbite
Source
If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.
Privacy
Libel laws
Off the record
If you have ________, you are alone or can be alone so that you can do things without other people seeing you or disturbing you. It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.
Speculation
Privacy
Off the record
The ________ refers to the cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press.
Media coverage
Deadline
Popular press
_______ (statistics) are lists giving the number of people who watched each television programme during the week so that the most popular and least popular programmes are known.
Ratings
Broadsheet
Pose a question
A situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival is known as a ________.
Ratings war
Circulation figures
Scoop
