MEDIA VOCAB #1

WHAT IS YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME

MEDIA

• (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, that reach or influence people widely:
• the quality of being believable or worthy of trust:
• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, to expose, denounce, or deride the folly or corruption of institutions, people, or social structures:

CREDIBILITY

• (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, that reach or influence people widely:
• the quality of being believable or worthy of trust:
• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda:

AUDIENCE

• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, to expose, denounce, or deride the folly or corruption of institutions, people, or social structures:
• deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda:

MISINFORMATION

• (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, that reach or influence people widely:
• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, to expose, denounce, or deride the folly or corruption of institutions, people, or social structures:
• Optithe main idea of a story, news article, or television showon 4

DISINFORMATION

• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda:
• the main idea of a story, news article, or television show

REAL NEWS

• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• the quality of being believable or worthy of trust:
• news that has factual information and actually occured

FAKE NEWS

• (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet, that reach or influence people widely:
• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• news that has factual information and actually occured
• news without factual information that did not actually occur

KEY CONCEPT

• the quality of being believable or worthy of trust:
• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda:
• the main idea of a story, news article, or television show

COMMENTARY

• the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
• deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda:
• false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead:
• a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: