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 Do you think a journalist assigned to write a profile of a newsmaker should check the subject’s social media postings?

 The editor of The Register said the decision about using King’s postings as a 16-year-old was “preempted” by King’s news conference in which he acknowledged the postings. Explain why, as a practical matter, King’s disclosure at the news conference left The Register with no choice but to mention the postings in some way.

 If King had not held his news conference, would you have run the profile without mentioning the postings?

 If you were editor, how would you respond to the kind of social media campaign that was aimed at The Register and Calvin?