Types of media
Programmes and peogle
News programmes
The sound-bice and the
photo-opportumty
The TV diet
Tho ratings barebe
Zapping
TV violence
‘Moltimedia and virtua
reality
The press
.
Ladies and gentlemen of the
press
Gossip and the glitterati
Suing for Hel
Gagaging the press
Political correctness
The campaign trail
The campaign platform
Winstlestop tours and
spin doctors
See
The sleaze factor
Dirty tricks
Polls and pollsters
Trailing or riding high?
Headlines
Shares and the stock marker
Boll markets and bear markets
Trading on the stac
change
Market movements 1
Ways of working
Benefits and headhunters
Discrimination at work
Getting the sack
Redundancy
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Casting your ballot
Getting clected
Knocked out in the first round
Electoral fraud
Election resules
‘Throwing the incumbents out
Absolute majorities and fh
padiamencs
Rainbow coalitions and
political horse-trading
Market movements 2
Record highs and record lows
Boom, recession and depression,
People
Corporate conflict
Oe
Redundancy pay
Jobless and on the dole
Industrial action
Strike paralysis
Scrike escalation
Honeymoons, lame ducks and
the political wil
Grassroors support and vores of
confidence
Undemocratie regimes
Toppling governmenrs
Unrest
Rioting and looting,
Rapressive measures
4
Scandal and wrongdoing
‘The bottom line
Sick companies
ing bust
cy
Pickets, seals and blacklegs
Calling i off
Welfare
Dismantling the welfare seate
Cracking down on seron
gersJoyriding and carjacking
Making a getaway
Facing robb:
ks, and calks about talks
Delegates, opposite numbers
and sherpas
indial and fiendly, or
ke?
Cuinpronuse and deadlock
ssinesslake ar
Low-brow to high-brow
Entertainers, artists, impresarios
uid show business
Performance and performers
Premieres, debuts and revivals
Sell outs and empty houses
Players, playing fields,
goalposts and own goals
Professional fouls and the
Berg arreste
Awainng cial
‘The indictment and the charges
Legal cagles
Pi
Guilty
Wi
.esses and their testimony
Brinkmanship
Breakthroughs, deals, accords
and agreements
Strained relations
Warand threats of war
Warring part
White Way
Tinseltown locations
Megastars and starlets
Blox
sleepers
Films buffs and cule movies
juccurs and others
Mogul
Favourites, front runners and
stalking horses
Track records
Awhole new ball-game
Acquittal
Conviction
Appeals
Capital panishmene
Pitan koe 157
Fighting
Casualcies
Victims of war
Ending the bloodshed
The peace process
tere eseet note ar ror
Fiction, faction and other
genres
Editors, publishers, agents and
ghosts
Reviewers and literary erities
‘The gliccering prizes
Are collections and exhibitions
art market
See Bd
Bodyblows and knockouts
Gambits, stalemate and the
endgame
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245_< {| The Media
Types of media
News and entertainment are communicated ina
number of different ways, using different media,
The media include print media such as newspapers and
magazines, and electronic media such as radio and television
media
mass media
print media
electronic media
news media The word med: most often used to refer to the
communication of news, and in this context mcans the same as
news media.
entertainment 782 ||
Media and mass media are often used when discussing the
power of modern communications.
@ LANGUAGENOTE
Media can be singular or plural,
Mass media is also spelt with a hyphen,
It is difficult for the media to cover the growing number of crises throughout the world.
You in the media are ali part of a powerful industry, That power can be used destructively or
constructively
impersonal contact through print media and television.
For the book's main character, withdrawal is the only means of escape from the crowd, from group-
think, fron the mass media.
The documentary should be required study forall students of mass-media communications, becasise
it illustrates to perfection the way in which illustrations of man’s inhumanity to man can mislead
public opinion.
The White House has announced that they normally will nos let any member of the news media
report on what is going to he in the speech sentil the president actually delivers it.
Belief systems and older cultures expire under a weight of more or less trivial information conveyed
by an all-pervasive electronic media,
1 Media partners 1. Look at the extracts and then complete
the tasks by combining the word ‘media’ with the other
words in the box below the numbered questions.
After waiting weeks jora day when it would get maxinuin media exposure, the Labour Party
launched its new policies for industry on February 25th — just as the Gulf War got going.
The trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby
attracted media attention unlike any seen before