Co-worker in trouble with the law. Fair topic?

[Casper_Malachi]

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/07/15/news/local/doc42d7483d37c87046163426.txt

If you work at a sister station that is N/T do you or can you talk about it on the air? If it where a police officer or other public figure it is far game. How about a co-worker?

 

[ccsac]

id run with it, but u have to be fair and realize

at this point, theyre just charges. it would be weird seeing him in the halls during or after the trial, if he was found innocent. station management wont probably let u mention it at all.

 

[gr8oldies]

Shades of Jim Fox (ex WUBE, Cincinnati, caught in an underage sex sting in Xenia, OH). He was brought on WLW to apologize, etc., and they even tried him as a fill-in talk host. Audience response was an overwhelming "hell, no, not on my radio!".<P ID="signature">______________
Soon to set the world record for recieving Nigerian scam and phising e-mails!</P>

 

[Scribbler]

"Found innocent" - there's no such verdict

> at this point, theyre just charges. it would be weird seeing
> him in the halls during or after the trial, if he was found
> innocent. station management wont probably let u mention it
> at all.
>
"Found innocent" is one of my pet peeves. There is no such verdict. O.J Simpson, Robert Blake, and Michael Jackson were not found "innocent," but their juries found that they could not find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they were guilty. Therefore, their verdicts were "not guilty," which is NOT the same as "innocent."

 

[jh]

Re: "Found innocent" - there's no such verdict

> "Found innocent" is one of my pet peeves. There is no such
> verdict. O.J Simpson, Robert Blake, and Michael Jackson
> were not found "innocent," but their juries found that they
> could not find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they were
> guilty. Therefore, their verdicts were "not guilty," which
> is NOT the same as "innocent."
>
You are exactly right! Several years ago, for whatever reason, AP seemed to change their style to "entering a plea of innocent" or "found innocent."
Some newspapers change it to the correct "not guilty" while others seemed to have change the style of their local stories to match the incorrect AP. It would seem to me that regardless of what the powers that be at the AP think, they should still report the actual verdict or plea as is stated in the court documents.

I still remember (quite a few years ago) on the first day of journalism class in high school, we learned that "innocent" and "not guilty" don't mean the same thing.