Ethics & The 1st Amendment

Ethical journalism should

• compromise the journalists integrity.

• be filled with stereotypes.

• anonymous.

• accurate and fair.

Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues and members of

the public as

• human beings deserving of respect.

• human beings responsible for providing journalist with news.

• subjects that cannot be trusted.

• human being that will provide journalist with inaccurate information.

Ethical journalism means

• you do not have to report accurate information.

• showing favoritism.

• being unethical.

• taking responsibility for one's work.

The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to

• publish unverified information.

• accept gifts, favors, free travel and special treatment.

• show bias in your writing.

• serve the public.

Select which right is not mentioned in the 1st Amendment.

• right to assemble peacefully

• right to have freedom of religion

• right to a free education

• right to petition the government

Speech can be nonverbal.

• True

• False

_____ is anything that a person says or does that is intended to convey a message that could reasonably be expected to be understood by others.

• Ethics

• Journalism

• Freedom

• Speech

Obscene speech at school is protected.

• True

• False

The school environment is different from the public in that schools have the duty to ____________ .

• tell parents when their child loses their 1st amendment rights.

• fulfill their educational mission.

• discipline students.

• educate students about freedom of speech.

What was the conflict in Tinker v. Des Moines?

• The students disrupted the educational process while protesting the Vietnam war.

• A student used obscene speech at a school assembly.

• Students came to school wearing black armbands.

• Students organized a school-wide walkout.