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Journalism Ch 3- Media Law

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A court order is called a ***

(a)  

2.

You publish an ***, a publication edited and run by students whithout support from the school and not prepared during the school day.

(a)  

3.

***means an official with the school district reviews the publication before it is broadcast, distriburted or posted online.

(a)  

4.

Damage to someone's reputation brought about by libel or slander is ***

(a)  

5.

*** says that all records generated by a public body are open to the public unless they are specifically exempted by law.

(a)  

6.

Legal responsibility, or ***, is the idea that any person who could have and should have prevented an injury can be held responsible for it.

(a)  

7.

The Hazelwood East paper was not a *, a publication where the student editors have the authority to make their own content decisions.

(a)  

8.

***means that the administration censors the students to include certain elements in their student publication or broadcast.

(a)  

9.

*** are laws that protect journalists from official demands from their journalistic research and images.

(a)  

10.

Journalist use their *** to gain access to political leaders, celebrities, events and legal or governmental proceedings.

(a)  

11.

Journalists' privileges recognized by the courts and usually based on the First Amendment are ***

(a)  

12.

Meetings of public officials should be open to the public are called ***

(a)  

13.

Copyright laws say that if you do creative work - write a story, compose a song, invent an app or a device - the result of this creativity is your ***

a)

private property

b)

intellectual property

c)

copyright work

d)

copyright infringement

14.

A *** is your right to own your creative work.

a)

property

b)

intellectual property

c)

fair use

d)

copyright

15.

Material the company has prepared for the use of the press is a ***

a)

copyright infringement

b)

invasion of privacy

c)

liability

d)

press package

16.

The theft of intellectual property is ***

a)

stealing

b)

fair use

c)

copyright infringement

d)

copyright

17.

Untrue spoken words that harm another person's reputation or harm an organization's ability to conduct its affairs in a community is ***

a)

slander

b)

gossip

c)

libel

d)

hearsay

18.

*** is the doctrine that there are some circumstances in which copyrighted material may be used without acquiring permission from the copyright holder.

a)

shield laws

b)

fair use

c)

sunshine laws

d)

copyright

19.

Knowingly publishing untrue or misleading words, pictures or symbols - that harms another person's reputation or harms an organization's ability to conduct its affairs in a community.

a)

slander

b)

gossip

c)

libel

d)

hearsay

20.

Which one does NOT belong:

The five freedoms in the First Amendment are:

a)

religion

b)

speech

c)

petitioning the court

d)

press

e)

assembly

21.

Originally, only the *** was restrained by the First Amendment when the Constitution was ratified.

(a)  

22.

In what landmark Supreme Court decision do you find the sentence "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate"?

(a)  

23.

Which Supreme Court justice wrote the before mentioned sentence?

(a)  

24.

Check all that apply.

In 1965, these students wore black armbands to school as a silent protest against the deaths in the Vietnam War and in support of the Christmas Truce called for by Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

a)

Mary Beth Tinker

b)

Christopher Echkart

c)

Abe Fortas

d)

John F. Tinker

e)

Bethel Kuhlmeier

25.

What is the difference between libel and slander?

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26.

**BONUS**

Do we fall under the TINKER standard or HAZELWOOD standard?

(a)