vocabulary chapter 2

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a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct

ethic

the quality of being trusted and believed in

Credibility

not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

Objective

the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.

Slander

is a legal term for a common law defense in defamation cases

Fair comment

is a character composed of two or more real life or fictional individuals, appearing in a fictional or non-fictional work

Composite characters

a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation Right of reply

Libel

A statement made to someone, such as one's physician, attorney, priest, or spouse, who cannot be legally compelled to divulge the informatio

Privileged statement

refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.

In loco parentis

is censorship imposed, usually by a government, on expression before the expression actually takes place.

Prior restraint

is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the repre

Plagiarism

the idea that once a forum is created

Forum theory

the opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story

right to reply