Chapter 2 vocabulary

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 or broadcast extemporaneously

A libel defense that protects a journalist's 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 statement against another person or institution that appear in writing or that are spoken from a written.

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

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

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

Statement made on the floor congress in the state legislature or in a courtroom that, if published are immune from libel suits

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

The idea that once a forum is created, the ideas expressed there cannot later be controlled.