Deck 12: Doing Justice: Ethical and Legal Issues

Question 1

___ is always an essential trait of a fair story, but a commitment to truth-telling also requires completeness, clarity and balance.

Answer 1

Accuracy

Question 2

Recent court rulings and governmental rules have so far established that most federal ___is part of the public record and that news organizations should have access to it.

Answer 2

email

Question 3

___ have been treated differently by the courts, having to additionally prove that something was published or broadcast with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth.

Answer 3

Public officials

Question 4

Provable ___ is the best defense against libel.

Question 5

___ is a false statement that damages someone's reputation that is published or broadcast.

Question 6

The freedom from governmental evaluation of conduct except in civil and privacy lawsuits is protected by the ___.

Question 7

The journalistic philosophy of ___ is one that allows the audience to judge the validity of information by explaining how it was procured and the motives and biases of the journalist providing it.

Question 8

The dominant journalistic philosophy of ___ was a reaction to partisan newspapers that dominated the nation's press in the 19th century.

Question 9

Unless you are handling a column, blog or a review, ___ has no place in a fair story ___.

Question 10

One clear trend in digital law is to give ___ materials the same copyright protection given print documents and photographs.