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13 Cards in this Set
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Ethics |
A system of moral principles. |
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Credibility |
The ability to inspire belief and trust. |
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Objectivity |
The ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events. |
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Slander |
A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously. |
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Fair Comment |
A libel defense that protects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books, records, and the like. |
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"Composite Characters" |
Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people. This practice is frowned upon by ethical journalists. |
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Libel |
Written defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that appear in writing or that are spoken (broadcast) from a written script. |
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Right of Reply |
The opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism in the same story. |
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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. |
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In Loco Parentis |
The legal idea that school authorities act "in place of the parent" and assume a parent's rights, duties, and responsibilities. This concept was apparently struck down in the Tinker case. |
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Prior Restraint |
Censorship, or restraint in advance of publication. This is illegal in the Unites States except in the rarest of circumstances, usually pertaining to national security in wartime. |
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Plagiarism |
The taking and using as one's own the writings or inventions of another person. |
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Forum Theory |
The idea that once a forum (or place where ideas are exchanged) is created, the ideas expressed there cannot later be controlled. |
