Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. When reporting on a speech, meeting, or news conference, you should enter the event with as little information as possible to keep an open mind.
2. You just finished reading a story about a recent speech by a local political candidate, and you notice that the politician’s name is misspelled. The most likely reason for this is that the writer is biased against the speaker and intentionally misspelled the name.
3. You have written a story and your spell-checking software found no errors in it. The story is now ready for publication.
4. To avoid misspelling the name of a speaker, it is most important to ensure that the name is spelled the same way throughout your story.
5. Every instance of proper nouns should be checked against source documents.
1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
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