For the Week ending 12/28/12
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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advertisement + entertainment
 The influential media blog Gawker described it as "_______", saying: "Televised entertainment has now completed its long, winding journey into becoming 100% corporate propaganda.  | 
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anecdote + dotage
 But the vogue for _______ owes much to the towering figure of Garrison Keillor, who has inspired numerous successors with the power of storytelling-the primal medium, the first entertainment most people ever knew.  | 
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emotion + icon
 Being such a social networking savvy person, you may know what the term _______ means - it's a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression :-)  | 
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against + say
 One hesitates to _______ those who are putting their money where we journalists are only willing to put our mouths.  | 
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malicious + advertising
 Consider how cybercrime might be fought by attacking its economic bases; stalker software that lets people spy on others; bogus anti-spyware products; and "_______," a technique through which online ads install malware.  |