Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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

The ability to inspire belief and trust.

Damaging false statements against another person or institutional that appear in writing or that are spoken broadcast from a written script.

Censorship, or restraint in advance of publication

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

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

The taking and using as one's own the writings or inventions of another person.

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

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

A libel defense that protects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books, records, and the like.

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

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