My high school wrote a false quote about me in the school's news paper, what should i do?

My school's newspaper put a false quote of me in the newspaper and it said stuff like i thought guys were better stronger and stuff and that girls are stupid. Ive never said that in my life, and now poeple think im a sexist, im completely opposite! What do you think i should do?My high school wrote a false quote about me in the school's news paper, what should i do?
If you can prove that you never said that or that it is hearsay they have to retract it. However papers like the National Inquirer get away to it to a point. They have been sued successfully many times. They practise poor journalism, supposed to stick to the facts, whether right or wrong. They rely on ';sensationalism';. Perhaps you may not be able to sue the school paper, but if they are wrong, they owe you an apology and a retraction. Poor journalism reflects on the attitude of the reporters and the editor and the school itself. Idle gossip should not be tolerated. Perhaps they are trying to match the other trashy legitimate rags but they shouldn't in a teaching institution. Maybe they don't have much to report or you have an enemy there. Read up on Journalism Ethics before you approach them so you know what they have done wrong and you can point it out to them in a professional manner. Show them you have done your homework, that you practise honest ethics and they should do so too. They should be acting as professionals not gossips or lies.My high school wrote a false quote about me in the school's news paper, what should i do?
I would contact the newspaper editor and ask where the information came from and then politely ask for an apology for mis quoting you.
Go to the teacher who runs the newspaper and ask for a retraction. If s/he refuses, go to the principal and then the school board.
uh


thats stupid.


ask the school/teachers/journalism teacher if you can post a counter post about that, saying that those were not your words.





if not, look on the bright side, your in the freaking schools newspaper.:]
Demand they print an appropriate retraction.
Go to the editor of the paper and have them print a retraction. If you didn't say these things and they have no proof, they could be in a bad position here. I'd want to know where they got their information and why they printed it, then get them to print a retraction in the next newspaper.





Good luck.
But why did they do that anyway??? you should report them to your adviser,friend or principal. It should help
Sue them for slander and defamation
CALL CNN AND FOX NEWS AND LET THEM KNOW! You may want to get a lawyer. THATS BAD! LOL


OR you can just forget about it
make them print an apology in the next issue
REPORT IT.


the nespaper team have broken the news tell someone and sort it out.


it isn't doing anything for your reputation and your properly not a sexist so shouldn't be called that for something you didn't say.


tell the teacher or something that looks after the newspaper team if that is what you call them.
Take it up with the school and make them print an apoligy in the next issue.
Write a letter to the Editor of the school paper, your town paper and the Principal. CC to the School Board. In it, demand a retraction be printed on the school paper's front page and an apology. If they don't respond, threaten them with a lawsuit.
ask them to print a retraction, if they wont go to thier faculty advisor, if he wont, go to the local paper.
That is awful...I would demand the newspaper print an apology and go to the principal or school district representative if you have to. That is BS!
Tell the editor. Tell the that wasn't true. Ask if they would like a false quote about them. If they say it was, tell the principal that was false, can THEY tell them?
u need to go to the head of the newspaper and say u want them to recant that. if they dont take legal matters
well i think that there is no smoke without a fire this means that you might done sth or said sth which made them take this impression on u or there migth be someone who hates u so he made this to get regret.
Write a letter to the editor setting the record straight. Also insist that the newspaper print a recantation. If they refuse, you might take the matter up with the school principal.