By David Gordon, associate editor
Three local journalists offered several suggestions for dealing with false statements that still have news value, during a News Engagement Day (NED) virtual panel discussion Tuesday evening.
Not surprisingly, they didn’t come up with a definitive solution to this challenge.
The trio – Leader-Telegram editor Matt Milner, Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Rich Kremer and WQOW-TV evening co-anchor Shannon Hoyt – all acknowledged the problems inherent in reporting untruthful statements from newsworthy individuals. They agreed that providing context and relevant factual material immediately after the false statements was one of the few ways to counter them.
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