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Journalistic Integrity (Friday, January 20 - 3rd period)
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.”
[WAIT FOR MY OCD OMG. OCD THREADS UP YAYS.]
“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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Re: Discussion - Libel?
Janet really had to stop signing up for any courses about ethics. They were never going to be taught by anyone who was actually ethical, were they? At least this teacher wasn't trying to run psych profiles on all her students.