Vocabulary

yFrontline Vocabulary and Good Phrases

- tabloid, supermarket tabloid

- anchorman

- ethics

- grabs

- promo

- industry watch-dog (The Press Council)

- chequebook journalism

- afternoon TV talk shows (e.g. Today Tonight)

- infomercials

- cable

- call-in radio

- news-worthiness

- agenda setting

- news censored out of existence

- distortion

- sensationalism

- stereotype

- oversimplication of issues

- manipulation of truth

- relentless pursuit of ratings

- construction

- re-presentation

- interpretation

- self-regulation

- individual morality

- cash for comment

- hybrid news

- the ethos of objectivity

- credibility (can be corrosive)

- consumer involvement

- prejudice

- stimulation

- immediacy

- network flagship

- centralisation of ratings as unchallenged mode of evaluating successful television

- maintenance of consistency of quality and approach in programs

- Current Affairs as commodity trading

- Legitimising

- Situation satire

- Incessant focus on personal trivial (yea I agree, too much Britney Spears and Peter Costello getting desperate…:D)

- Sensationalising and dramatising common events

- Fetishsation of celebrities (urgh… Naomi Watts is soooo… noooot hot)

- Invasion of privacy, gratuitous sexual display

- Connotation

- Recreations

- Misinformation

- The unscrupulousness of media

- Abstracted representation (different from re-presentation)

- Juxtaposition

- Formulaic interview

- Commercialism