Chapter 2 vocab

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 spoken or broadcast extemporaneously

a libel defense that protects a journalist 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 up

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

the opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that 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 f

the legal idea that school authorities act “in place of the parent” and assume a parents rights, duties, and responsibiliti

Censorship or restraint in advance of publication. This is illegal in the US except

the taking and using as ones own the writings or inventions of another person

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