THE MEDIA

1. _______________ are the number of people watching a television programme.

2. _______________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence, a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.

3. A ____________________ is a time limit for any activity.

4. 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.

5. _______________________ refer to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.

6. _______________________ is brief excerpt from a text or performance (anything from a single word to a sentence or two) that is meant to capture the interest and attention of an audience; a short sentence or phrase, usually from a politician's speech, which is broadcast during a news programme.

7. ______________________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analysed, and reported in the media.

8. 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 (fibres) into thread.

9. ___________________________ protect people from libel which is something written in a book or newspaper which wrongly damages somebody’s reputation.

10. A ____________________ is an exclusive newspaper story (i.e., a story that is published only in that particular paper)