User:Cernen/Testing sandbox
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This is my sandbox. On occasion, I take class notes here and transfer them to my home computer whenever I forget to bring materials to Journalism 101 and 102. If you see the {{inuse}} tag atop this page, that's what I'm doing, so please do not rake my sandbox until this tag is removed!
don't remove! -- notes from class, thursday, 19 jan 2006 1104pst
- use safe wording to avoid libel cases -- instead of "arrested for" use "arrested on charges of" or "for suspicion of"
- TNT says not to give suspect name until formally charged!
- qualified privlege - means you can report things that are defamatory as long as they were not used out of context of a news story
- ...as long as this was done in a public forum or discussion
- ...and not told to you in private by some whackjob on the street
- blind leads are best for crime stories
- ...unless the person charged or suspected is famous!!