Chapter 2 vocabulary

The ability to inspire belief and trust

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

A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken 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. This practice is frowned upon by ethical journ

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

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

Statements made on the floor of 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. This concep

censorship, or restraint in advance of publication. This is illegal in the united stated except for the rarest of the circumstances, usually

the taking and using as ones’ own the writers or inventions of anothers

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