Chapter 2

The ability to inspire belief and trust

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

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

A libel defense that protects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books

Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics

Written defamation

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

Statesnebts nadeib tge fkiiw if Congress, in the state legislature, or in a courtroom that, if published, are immune from libel suits

The legal idea that school authorities act "in place of the parent" and assume a parent's rights duties, and responsibilities.

Censorship, or restraint in advance of publication

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

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