Sign in to save your progress, vote, and build your own decks.Sign in
Chapter 2
12 cards·by 0309
Ethics
A system of moral principles
Composite characters
Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people
libel
written defamation damaging false statements against another person or institution that
appear in writing or rhat are spoken from a writen s
Prior restraint
Censorship or restraint in advance of publication.
obejectivity
The ability to make fair neutral observations about people and events
Right of reply
The oppurtunity for permiting a person criticized in a story to respond to that critiscm in the
dame story
Plagiarism
The taking and using one's own the writings or inventions of another person
Slander
A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or braodcast
extemporaneously
Privileged Statements
Statements made on the floor of congress in the state legislature or in a courtroom that if
published are immune from libel suits
Fair comment
A libel defense that protects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews
of books, records, and the like
in loco parentis
The lagal idea that school authorities act in place of the parent and assume a parent's right's
fourm theory
the idea that once a fourm ( or place wher ideas are exchange) is created