_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.
Viewing figures
Media coverage
Ratings/rating wars
If people _________ or an idea, they ask or state that question or idea.
Pose a question
Speculation
Broadsheet
_________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.
Tabloid
Speculation
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.
Off the record
Bias
Popular press
________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.
Viewing figures
Circulation figures
Pose a question
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
Off the record
Chequebook journalism
Soundbite
_________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.
Media coverage
Popular press
Libel laws
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.
Bias
Speculation
Spin
_________ 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)
Soundbite
Scoop
Source
If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.
Libel laws
Off the record
Privacy
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 It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.
Privacy
Off the record
Speculation
The ________ refers to the cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press.
Deadline
Media coverage
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.
Broadsheet
Pose a question
Ratings
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
