chapter 2

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 journalists 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 jour

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

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 from libel suits.

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

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

the taking and using as one’s own the writing 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 controlled.