By Betsy Powell
Toronto Star
Published on 6/10/2003
Excerpt:
Bob Steele, a journalism ethics professor at the Poynter Institute in Florida, said it would be appropriate and “humane” if, when charges are withdrawn, there is acknowledgement of that by police and the media. The media have a “profound responsibility,” he says, to “make sure we have an exceptionally high level of fairness to those who are accused in these cases, because they will be tried by the public long before, sometimes, they’re tried in a courtroom.”
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