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 print "I never sleep alone" as the quote. The actor is furious when he reads the article. He phones you and sets the record straight. "I never sleep at home," was what the actor really said. Your magazine is sued for libel. A reporter should never attribute a quote to someone that may be inaccurate. 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 not to run the quote?

Scenarios:

The Senator

The Unwed Father

Down By The River

The Political Cartoon

You print "I never sleep alone" as the quote.

The actor is furious when he reads the article. He phones you and sets the record straight. "I never sleep at home," was what the actor really said. Your magazine is sued for libel. A reporter should never attribute a quote to someone that may be inaccurate. 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 not to run the quote?