Journalistic Integrity (Friday, January 20 - 3rd period)

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Rita was in a fairly obvious bad mood.

“All right. Today we’ll discuss libel.” She consulted her roster and chose a name at random. “All right, so let’s say I write an article saying that Alex is a wonderful boy who is sweet and kind and simply a delight to be around. But Alex did not appreciate this. Would this be considered libel, or poetic license? I did mean it in the nicest way, and it’s not an outright lie.”

She waved impatiently. “Discuss.”

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Comments

Re: Discussion - Libel?

[fh_jackass]

"If it's not true, it shouldn't be printed," Logan said. "There's stuff that sounds good when you see it in print, but it can still twist up the lives of the people you're writing about."