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I.T.J Chapter 2
Broadcast and Film Terms and Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Being or staying correct and precise on something |
| Anonymous sources | Individual(s) that give info but want to keep there identities a secret for personal or other reasons |
| Attribution | Finding the source, cause, or creator of anything they made or invented |
| Bias | Having prejudice against certain information |
| Conflict of interest | Situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible |
| Deception | Tricking or hiding some facts from the public |
| Disclosure | Action of making new or secret information known for everyone to see |
| Ethics | A set of moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity |
| Fabrication | Creating and spreading a lie on something |
| Fake news | Misleading information and verification of news on purpose for manipulation and harm |
| Libel | False published statements that is damaging to a person's reputation |
| Morals | A lesson, behavior and beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do derived from story, a piece of information, experiences |
| Muckraking | The action of searching out and publicizing malicious information about famous people in an underhanded way |
| Objectivity | The quality of being neutral |
| Off the record | Not made as an official or attributable statement |
| Plagiarism | The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own |
| Press release | Official statements issued to newspapers giving information on a particular matter |
| Retraction | A withdrawal of a statement, accusation, or undertaking |
| Slander | The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation |
| Transparency | The quality of being easy to perceive or detect dishonesty or the inaccuracy |
| Yellow Journalism | Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration upon factual information; popular around the 19th century |