As a journalist, I can tell you that's nicer than most things people say.
You should have heard what a sweet, little old lady called me a couple of
weeks ago. :) And there I was thinking I had my horns and tail well-hidden
...
Seriously, I do hear this a lot. People expect us to put anything and
everything in the paper, and curse us if we don't -- freedom of the press
and all. Unless, of course, if it pertains to them in a negative or
embarassing way, then we are evil incarnate and personally out to get them
(even if we've never met them). Every publication has a point at which they
draw the line, and no two papers are alike. We deal with so many unpleasant
topics that have to be reported, and invariably someone gets angry, i.e. the
mom of the guy arrested with a crank lab in his car, the family of the man
who beat up his girlfriend and then blew his head off in the grocery store
after an 8-hour police standoff (yes, that happened -- we have an amazing
amount of weird stuff in a little town of 2,500), the family of the drunk,
neglectful mom who let her precious two-year-old daughter wander into the
path of an oncoming train. And the list goes on. It's not just
sensationalism. We have very good reasons for running the things we do.
>
> Sterotypically speaking I consider journalism, bad-taste, and unethical to
> be synonymous terms.
>
> Tom C.
>
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