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Anguish - excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
Anonymous - without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like
Breach - an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise.
Calumny - a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or
something
Character - the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some
person or thing.
Cognizance - awareness, realization, or knowledge
Complainant - a person, group, or company that makes a complaint, as in a legal action.
Convict - to prove or declare guilty of an offense, esp. after a legal trial
Crime - an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public
welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally
prohibited.
Defamation - the act of defaming; false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of
another, as by slander or libel; calumny
Deliberate - carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional
Dereliction - deliberate or conscious neglect; negligence; delinquency
Editor - a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the
editorial part of a publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other
publication.
Ethics - the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.
Evidence - that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
Fact - something that actually exists; reality; truth
Fallacy - a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc
Falsehood - a false statement; lie.
Illegal - forbidden by law or statute.
Inflammatory - tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc
Infringement - a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation;
transgression.
Innocent - free from legal or specific wrong; guiltless
Insult - an insolent or contemptuously rude action or remark;
Journalism - the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting
news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
Libel - defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by
spoken words or gestures
Magazine - a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and
typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often
photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or
area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
Malice - evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to
others.
Media - Plural of "medium." The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry
and profession.
Medium - A means of mass communication, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, or
television.
Neglect - to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight
Newspaper - a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, esp. daily or
weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
Opinion - a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
Proof - evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its
truth.
Punitive - serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment
Reporter - a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service,
or television station.
Sensationalism - subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or
thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
Slander - defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
Statute - an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document.
Truth - a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like
Violation - a breach, infringement, or transgression, as of a law, rule, promise, etc
Voluntary - done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free
choice