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Troy University Hall School of Journalism & Communication JRN 4425: Mass Media Law
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Spring 2015
(Dr. Sarapin)
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Worth:
75
pts.
Essay #
1
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I will expect you to think critically about First Amendment ri
ghts as you develop this essay.
Four
cases will be presented after these instructions. You are to write your essay on only one of the
cases.
In your essay, address the questions posed following the scenario, but make it all flow as
though those questions a
re thoughts you have and know that they must be considered in arriving
at a solution to your journalistic dilemma.
Do not list the questions
within your essay and then
answer them individually. You must fully justify the path you choose
. In other words, wh
ether
you choose a solution that is provided
to
you within the case scenario
or another one you have
come up with on your own, you must explain completely why you have made this choice.
Refer
to
at least two
previously decided cases (
precedent
) as partial
support for your decision.
Do not
start off writing the scenario as it appears in this assignment simply to add words to your essay.
You may begin by briefly explaining the dilemma you are facing.
Your paper must be
submitted to Turn
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ember
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The cases follow:
Case 1
How much information should you report?
THE SCENARIO
:
You are a reporter for a local newspaper. You come back to the office one day to find several
staff members discussing this story:
Two teenagers have been killed in an automobile accident. The
driver, who survived, had been
drinking prior to the accident. The two girls in the back seat, both of whom were killed, were
nude at the time of the accident.
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Your colleague, another reporter, is pushing for all the known facts to be reported. But the e
ditor
argues that the fact of the girls’ nudity should not be revealed; he claims that such information
will just be an additional insult to their parents, who already are suffering from the girls’ deaths.
Ask: Do you have a right to publish:
The fact tha
t the driver was drinking?
The fact that the girls were nude at the time of the accident?
Would it be responsible to publish these facts in reporting the accident?
B
rainstorm about things to consider in deciding whether to report this information
:
Do we h
ave all the facts? Has anyone interviewed the survivor?
Is there evidence of sexual assault?
Does the newspaper have a policy on printing names of sexual
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assault victims?
Will publishing the information help anyone else?
Case 2
Detachment or involve
ment?
THE SCENARIO:
You are a reporter for a large urban daily. The paper plans a major series on poverty. Your editor
assigns you to do an in
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depth piece on the effects of poverty on children, with special emphasis
on what happens when drug addiction bec
omes part of the story.
You have identified several families willing to be subjects for the story. Three families agree to
be photographed
—
and identified
—
and you spend four months with them, visiting their homes
every day and observing what goes on. Yo
u tell them your job is to be an observer
—
a “fly on
the wall”
—
so you can gather information for this important series.
In one home, you watch as a mother allows her three
-
year
-
old daughter to go hungry for 24
hours. You see this same child living in a
filthy room, stepping on broken glass and sleeping on a
urine
-
soaked mattress. You know the mother is HIV
-
positive and you watch as she brushes her
daughter’s teeth with the same toothbrush she uses. You see the mother hit the child with full
force. You se
e the little girl about to bite on an electrical cord. Her plight haunts you.
What do you do to satisfy both your conscience and your responsibilities as a reporter?
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A.
Report the mother to the authorities so the girl will be removed from this
environment and
placed in a foster home. Then write the story.
B.
Write the story first, detailing your observations. After the story has been
published, notify the authorities, giving the mother’s address.
C.
Write the story, but don’t identify the mother or child to police o
r social service
authorities. Remember, you are a reporter. You’ve put the information in the
newspaper. It’s not your job to act as a police officer.
D.
Your own solution to the dilemma.
Case
3
To what lengths should you go to get a story?
THE SCENARIO:
You are a correspondent for a major television network. Your producers have done a great deal
of research about a national grocery chain; they allege that some of its grocery stores are asking
employees to participate in unsanitary food
-
handling practices
.
This is an important story. Consumers may get sick if they eat tainted food, you argue, and they
have a right to know that a food store is not handling its food in a safe manner. You want to
make sure this story airs on national television. You believe t
hat to get good footage you have to
go into the store with cameras and film the store’s workers actually engaging in unsafe practices.
You need proof.
As the television correspondent, how will you get your story?
A.
Call the store manager and request an on
-
si
te interview, with cameras. Explain that you
have some information that consumers will want to know about and give the store a
chance to show its side of the story.
B.
Just appear at the store one day, without advance notice to the manager. That way you
won’t
tip off the staff that you’re onto a story.
C.
Pretend to be looking for a job in the store; complete an employment application and
actually get hired. Then, while you’re at work, use hidden cameras to document the
unsafe practices you see.
D.
Your own solut
io
n to the dilemma. Be specific.
Case
4
Will a negative story be allowed to run in a high school newspaper
?
THE SCENARIO:
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