Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people.

The ability to inspire belief and trust.

written defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that appears in writing or that a spoken from a script.

censorship, or restrain in advance of publication. Illegal in the United States except in the rarest of circumstances.

the ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.

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

the taking and using as one’s own the writings or inventions of another person.

a damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously.

statements made on the floor of Congress, in the same legislature, or in a courtroom that, if published, are immune from libel suits.

a libel defense that protects a journalist’s expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books, records, and the like.

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

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