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5 Defenses Against Libel
Vocabulary
Elements of News
People
Functions
100
Defense that states that if it’s true, then it is not libel.
What is truth?
100
Frauds, hoaxes, unethical journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
100
In the area of the audience.
What is proximity?
100
Invented the penny press.
Who is Benjamin Day?
100
News that is able to pass along through social media.
What is social?
200
Defense against libel that states that you can use opinions in a review as long as they are not false.
What is fair comment?
200
Spoken defamation.
What is slander?
200
Well-known muckraker, author of “Ten Days at a Mad House.”
Who is Nellie Bly?
300
Defense that states that if it wasn’t published maliciously it isn’t libel.
What is admission of error?
300
Giving credit to the author.
What is credibility?
300
Whoever is battling who.
What is conflict?
300
Wrote about meat packing plants in the early 20th century.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Media has influence over what topics society chooses to think and talk about.
What is agenda-setting?
400
This defense states that you can publish info about people who thrusts themselves into the public.
What is public officials/figures?
400
Not choosing sides in an argument.
What is impartiality?
400
The importance of an event.
What is consequence?
400
Defended his client in a libel case and convinced the jury to find the defendant not guilty.
Who is Andrew Hamilton?
400
Provides info about goods and products.
What is economics?
500
State of mind to make things fair.
What is objectivity?
500
An important person?
What is prominence?
500
Publisher of New York weekly and was arrested for libel.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
500
Journalists ar often regarded as the “watchdogs” of the government.
What is political.