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Journalism Overview
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| defamation | printing or broadcasting of any wrong information about someone to ruin their reputation |
| retraction | an apology or correction of the following problem of a newspaper |
| censorship | to remove or prohibit material by an authority, most likely governmental |
| prior review | to review something before it goes out to the public |
| qualifying words | words that give protection to someone that has not been declared guilty of a crime |
| slander | a worded statement that is said to cause a person to be rejected, hated, avoided, or even suffer a financial loss |
| libel | a written statement that causes a person to be rejected, hated, avoided, or suffer a financial loss |
| fault | the publication did something it was not supposed to |
| publication | someone outside the newsroom has seen the printed version of the libelous story |
| fair commitment and criticism | the media can criticize the government or something in the entertainment world without being accused of libel |