
Crisis management 127
Legal issues
I cannot emphasise enough how unlikely it is that you will ever
need to become involved in taking legal action against a media
outlet. In my eight years as a journalist, I have never even come
close to being threatened with legal action – and I have cer-
tainly had my fair share of complaints, angry phonecalls and
even a particularly abusive man coming into reception and
threatening to ‘get’ me.
Despite this, it is worth having a basic grasp of libel law. Libel
is really the only possible legal scenario you could find yourself
in but once again, it is hugely unlikely. So treat this section as ...