chapter 2 vocab

The ability to inspire belief and trust

A system of moral principles

The ability to inspire belief and trust

The ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events

A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously

A libel defense that protects journalists expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books, records, and the like.

Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people.

- Written defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that appear in writing or that are spoken (broadcast)

The opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism in the same story

Statements made on the floor of Congress, in the state legislative, or ina courtroom that, if published, are immune from libel suits

The legal idea that schools authorities act “in place of the parent” and assume a parents right, duties, and responsibilities. This concept

Censorship or restraint in advance of publication. This illegal in the United States except in the rarest of circumstances, usually pertaini

The idea that once a forum ( or place where ideas are exchanged) is created, the ideas expressed there cannot later be controlled

the taking and using as ones own the writings or inventions of another person