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AP Potpourri
Legal Potpourri
100
An absolute defense for libel.
What is the truth?
100
Moral principles that govern an individual's or group's behavior.
What are ethics?
100
Richard Wong, (president and CEO / President and CEO), spoke at the conference.
What is president and CEO?
100
The "comma" and "months" rules that apply to this sentence: The San Jose, California, university football team was in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor bombing in December 1941.
What are: 1. Use commas with names of states and cities. and 2. When a phrase lists only a month and a year, do not separate the year with a comma.
100
When a picture or story is misleading.
What is false light?
200
Publication of a false statement that seriously harms someone's reputation.
What is libel?
200
Some actions are always right or always wrong, and we have a duty to follow them.
What are the ethics of duty, what a deontologist believes.
200
SJSU hired Brent Brennan (whose; who's) replacing hired Ron Caragher as head coach.
What is who's?
200
Room 226 has a (four-to-five-inch wide, 4- to-5-inch-wide) window sill.
What is 4- to-5-inch-wide? (Dimensions entry)
200
Without this, journalists can go to jail for refusing to name a source or testify in a trial.
What is a shield law?
300
The spoken form of libel.
What is slander?
300
The idea that the end justifies the means.
What a teleologist believes. The ethics of final ends or consequences. Relativist.
300
The Spartan clubs (who use; which use) the Student Union are there almost all the time.
What is which use?
300
The JMC (bi-annual, biannual) commencement ceremony will be held this semester on December 21.
What is biannual (AP Stylebook says generally no hyphen for compounds formed with "bi.")
300
How long you have to wait in order to use a well-known author's book without permission.
What is author's life plus 70 years?
400
Publication, identification, harm and fault.
What is: what the plaintiff needs to prove in order to win a libel case?
400
"There's no one way to respond here. There are so many things to consider."
What are situation ethics: The ethics of specific acts.
400
It's Bridget Jones's Diary according to the Chicago Manual of Style. But in AP Style it's this:
What is Bridget Jones' Diary. (The Stylebook's "apostrophe" guidance says SINGULAR PROPER NAMES ENDING IN S use only an apostrophe for the possessive.)
400
The grade posting period is Friday, Dec. 16, at 7 a.m. to Thursday, Dec. 22 at 9 p.m. INSTEAD OF The grade posting period is Friday, Dec. 16 at 7 a.m. to Thursday, Dec. 22 at 9 p.m.
What is the example given in the AP Stylebook's "months" guidance. It gives a similar punctuation example, setting off the date.
400
Purpose and character of the use, nature of the work, size and significance of the portion used, and effect on the potential value.
What are the four factors that govern fair use?
500
Instead of actual malice, just negligence.
What is the difference between what a private individual must prove v. a public figure in a libel case?
500
If a journalist loses this, he may as well find another line of work. (Unless he's Brian Williams.)
What is credibility?
500
You have your final exam this week and the other students have (theirs; their's, theirs').
What is theirs. (Pronouns section of the Stylebook's apostrophe section.)
500
The (boy's, boys) water polo team shares the pool with the (women's, womens) team.
What is: The boys water polo team shares the pool with the women's team? (AP regards such team references as descriptive. Descriptive Phrases section: Use apostrophe when forming the plural of a descriptive word that doesn't end in s.)
500
The landmark case that established different standards for proving libel for individuals and public figures
What is NY Times vs. Sullivan?