Long before online quizzes became a wildly popular trend, The Star reached out to its readers to engage in an annual year-end exercise we call “You be the Editor.”

You might also call this a game of second guessing the Star’s editors who have responsibility – and ongoing hourly deadline pressures – to make journalistic decisions aligned with the public interest, our journalistic standards and language usage guidelines.

In the public editor’s office, we hear daily from engaged readers who question the accuracy, fairness, taste and ethics of the Star’s articles, headlines, photos, graphics, videos, editorial cartoons and social media postings.

The following scenarios represent a small sampling of the reader concerns and complaints we fielded in 2018. Now it’s your turn to play editor and weigh in with your own judgments.

Remember, you may have your own reasons to publish, or not publish. This is an exercise in trying to put yourself at the journalist’s desk to determine your own judgments if you had to make these decisions.

If you were the editor, what would you do?

I will report on your decisions in an upcoming column.

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