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Case Ten : Story

You be the Editor

A local politician addresses a group of his constituents and tells a raw, sexual joke in the process. Several in the audience are greatly offended and walk out. Your reporter's story of the speech includes a reference to the walk out and retells the joke, with explicit language, so readers can make their own judgments about the protest.

Do you:

A. 
Decide the joke's impact can only be conveyed by using exact language, and let it be published even though many readers will be offended.

B.  Decide readers don't need to know explicit details and take it out of the story.



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