5. Sued … or Not Sued?
• You are the ND at a radio station. Your
reporter was on a ride-along with a
medical chopper unit when they stopped
to treat and transport a shooting victim.
Your reporter has sound of the medics
treating the patient in the air chopper en
route to the hospital. You air the sound.
6. Sued … or Not Sued?
• You are in the control room at the TV
station covering breaking news of a
shooting at a junior high school. Your
photog in the field has an exclusive live
shot of a shooting victim. In the
frame, you can see a young girl shot in
the shoulder hiding in a tree as police
slowly approach. You air the footage
live.
7. Sued … or Not Sued?
• You take a break from the control room
and, angry over a recent
breakup, decide to look at the intimate
photos you took of your then-girlfriend
using your I-phone. Bitter and
alone, you upload them to a site for
voyeurs.
8. Sued … or Not Sued?
• You just aired a package on your TV
station about drug use on college
campuses. The package featured a shot
of two random college students, Bill and
Ted, sitting in the quad eating
sandwiches while the reporter’s voice-
over stated “one in five college students
has tried meth.”
9. Sued … or Not Sued?
• You take another break, still smarting
from your breakup. This time you tweet
a picture of your ex-girlfriend (wearing
clothes) along with the caption, “Don’t
date a slut.”
• You have 4 followers.
10. Sued … of Not Sued?
• You are the ND at a television station.
You just published a web story about
about an area teacher arrested for
having sex with a student. You
incorrectly identify the principal as the
offender, when in fact the math teacher
was the culprit.
11. Sued … or Not Sued?
• What if you tweeted the erroneous
information, but you removed the
deleted the tweet within an hour of
learning it was incorrect?
