Assignment 09/23

A candidate for public office, a reporter discovers, was put on trial for alleged aggravated robbery almost 15 years ago. He was acquitted. Is this of relevance to the media during the current election? What obligation dos the media have to report such things?


This statement could be very effective to the candidates election.
When people starts to hear about what the reporter has come up with.
People starts checking backgriunds and asking questions. Making things
harder than it was before. The reporter must have got hard evidence to
put something that serious in the paper, knowing it cold ruin the
candidates election.