P.S. v. Scripps Media CA4/1
Allison Ash was a news reporter for a local television news program (10News).
Ash sought and obtained the permission of plaintiff P.S. to come to P.S.'s apartment to
conduct a taped interview of P.S. for a segment to be broadcast on 10News concerning an
investigation into allegations of wide-spread sexual abuse of patients by a local doctor.
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Ash assured P.S. the segment, when broadcast, would safeguard P.S.'s privacy and
anonymity. Although the interview segment as broadcast complied with Ash's
assurances to protect her anonymity, by using only P.S.'s first name and by using "tiling"
to obscure her face from recognition when P.S. was speaking to Ash, a lead-in promoting
the upcoming segment included a video clip in which P.S.'s face was not "tiled" but
instead made her readily recognizable.
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