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Basic journalist practice is that you can read the piece and suggest corrections, especially if you set it as a condition before being interviewed. You can have
by Nokinside 8y ago
Basic journalist practice is that you can read the piece and suggest corrections, especially if you set it as a condition before being interviewed. You can have your own recording equipment, and someone else taking notes. You can require that you have an option to give your own response in the same page as the story (ask certain number of words). Write everything agreed down, have a record + witness.
In TV all bets are off. I fully understand why people come in the front of TV cameras and spout only canned responses that say noting. Even the most innocent you say can be edited in a way that changes the narrative completely. Joe Nobody should never volunteer to be in the front of cameras if they are the source of bad news. It's completely adversarial setting and editing can change everything.
- hyeonwho4 8y agoI don't see how print interviews are much better than TV. Is the idea that you can sue for libel if they misrepresent you? If I remwmber correctly, there was a case in Florida where one of the big 4 news agencies cut word out of a 911 call to make it more inflammatory.
- sievebrain 8y agoI've take to journalists before on technical topics. Whenever I she'd to see the article before publication so I could correct mistakes they always refused and always stated they never share stories with sources. So I think you're wrong about that.