_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.
Viewing figures
Ratings/rating wars
Media coverage
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.
Source
Privacy
Deadline
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
Popular press
Off the record
________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.
Circulation figures
Viewing 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
Soundbite
Chequebook journalism
_________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.
Media coverage
Libel laws
Popular press
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
Spin
Speculation
_________ 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
Source
Soundbite
If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.
Privacy
Off the record
Libel laws
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 It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.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.
Popular press
Media coverage
Deadline
_______ (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.
Pose a question
Broadsheet
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 ________.
Circulation figures
Scoop
Ratings war
