What Would You Do?: The Interview


Scenarios: The Senator The Unwed Father Down By The River The Political Cartoon You Have Mail And The Winner Is... A Walk In The Park Man of The People An Anonymous Tip The Interview	You do not run the quote. A reporter should never attribute a quote to someone that may be inaccurate. If that was not what the action star said you could be sued for libel. As Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy put it: Quotation marks "indicate to the reader that the passage reproduces the speaker's words verbatim." OR Would you print "I never sleep alone" as the quote?

Scenarios:

The Senator

The Unwed Father

Down By The River

The Political Cartoon

You do not run the quote.

A reporter should never attribute a quote to someone that may be inaccurate. If that was not what the action star said you could be sued for libel. As Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy put it: Quotation marks "indicate to the reader that the passage reproduces the speaker's words verbatim."

OR

Would you print "I never sleep alone" as the quote?