1. A female motorcycle passenger is killed after the driver of the motorcycle sped away from police. A witness describes seeing body parts strewn on Highway 401, including “a severed head in a helmet.” Do you report these gruesome details?Nope.
2. A story reports that Indonesia’s most famous toddler, 2-year-old Ardi Rizal, has kicked his two pack-a-day smoking habit. You run a story with this picture. Do you publish this headline: “Buddha-like child quits smoking”?
No, thats a terrible thing to say.
3. A week before her planned speaking engagement in Port Hope, Nobel-prize nominee and renowned anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott tells a Star reporter that she will warn local residents that the town is sitting on a carcinogenic time bomb and the only safe solution is to relocate the entire town of 16,000. Do you report this and publish this attention grabbing headline: “Warning: Port Hope a toxic time bomb; the only solution? Move”?
Yes.
4. In reporting on Peterborough hockey coach Greg Walsh, who was suspended for pulling his team following a racial slur against one of his players, do you publish the actual slur or refer to “the n-word”?
"the n-word"
5. Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures this powerful image of an angry mob beating a suspected looter and (then burning him alive) on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. Do you publish this photo on Page 1 of the Sunday Star?
No.
6. In her new cookbook, British cooking goddess Nigella Lawson includes her recipe for pasta alla puttanesca (whore’s pasta in Italian), which she calls “slut’s spaghetti.” Do you publish this headline on Page 1: “Try her slut’s spaghetti”?
No
7. In reporting on the World Cup soccer match between Uruguay and South Korea, a sports columnist comparing the two nations writes satirically that Korea has a powerhouse economy while “Uruguay’s got plane-crash-related cannibalism.” Do you publish this reference to the 1972 Andes flight disaster?
No
8. A new book about Canadian broadcasting icon Peter Gzowski reveals his secret son, never before publicly acknowledged. You obtain an exclusive interview with Gzowski’s son, now 49. Do you publish this story on Page 1?
Yes
9. Two high-school students from a school in one of Toronto’s designated “disadvantaged” neighbourhoods are suspended from a high school track meet for fighting. A reporter on the scene videotapes the altercation. Do you publish the video and identify the youths?
No
10. In preparation for the G20 summit in Toronto, the Star produces a series of profiles and “Portraits of Leaders.” Do you publish this photo of U.S. President Barack Obama taken in 1980 when he was a college student in Los Angeles?
Yes
11. An article about the death of a TTC collector who earlier in the year was caught catnapping on the job in a photograph that went viral online, reports that the incident caused the man great distress. Do you republish the photo in reporting on his death?
No
12. A judge releases graphic photos shown in open court of convicted “sadosexual serial killer” Russell Williams. Do you publish this disturbing photo on Page 1 alongside a photo of Williams in full military uniform?
No
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