Yearbooks: The Law And You 2023

ACTIVITY

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APPLYING THE ELEMENTS OF LIBEL

Analyze the following scenarios and answer the questions.

A student on your yearbook staff starts an official staff blog to increase your staff’s presence among the school community throughout the year. She routinely discusses some of the coverage for that year’s book as it comes together. In a post about the football team’s less-than-stellar season, she wrote, “If our school had a better coach, maybe we’d win some games. Of course, everyone knows the coach was only hired because he’s the superintendent’s brother.” SCENARIO 1

1. Analyze the statements above using the P-I-H-F-F test and determine whether each statement poses any libel concerns.

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