What Would You Do?: The Senator


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 run the story. After investigation by the police the student activities director is found to have committed illegal activities. Your editor is not impressed when he returns to his post. While he thanks you for finding out about such a great story he is disappointed that you printed the story without trying to reach the student activities director first. He explained if the student activities director had a reasonable explanation for his actions you may have opened up the newspaper to a libel suit. Waiting to make sure you get the story correct is the best policy. OR Would you decide to scrap the story until you can speak with the student activities director?

Scenarios:

The Senator

The Unwed Father

Down By The River

The Political Cartoon

You run the story.

After investigation by the police the student activities director is found to have committed illegal activities. Your editor is not impressed when he returns to his post. While he thanks you for finding out about such a great story he is disappointed that you printed the story without trying to reach the student activities director first. He explained if the student activities director had a reasonable explanation for his actions you may have opened up the newspaper to a libel suit. Waiting to make sure you get the story correct is the best policy.

OR

Would you decide to scrap the story until you can speak with the student activities director?