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While a man sits watching television in his living room in one of the city's more affluent suburbs, a drive-by sniper shoots through the front window and wounds him, but not seriously.

He persuades police investigators not to release his name and address because he doesn't know whether he was an intended or random target. He'll feel safer if he isn't identified publicly. One of your reporters phones around and manages to come put with the man's name and address.

Do you:

A.  Identify the man and give his street address, keeping in mind other residents in the neighborhood may want or need to know, perhaps to protect themselves because the shooting may have been random. A couple of homes a few kilometres away are also targets the same night.

B.  Accede to the man's fears and withhold his identification and address, simply giving the general area of the city in which the shooting occurred.

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