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In my time in journalism, which again especially in news writing, which is a little under a year at this point of course, I've studied journalism, I'm very, very familiar with how to handle things. One thing that still amazes me is how little the public understands how we have to report crime stories, especially when the accused is a friend or a family member. They get mad when we report what we're told by police. They accuse us of not
telling both sides of the story. Well, in many of these cases, we sit down or we show up at the initial court hearing and we ask the accused if they care to comment, and most times they don't want to comment, usually because they're lawyer, or maybe they're just smart enough to know they don't want to say anything because it might be used against them. Now we'll show up at the trial, we'll cover the trial and that will be the time that their side of the story
gets told. But in the initial arrest, we have to go with the police version of events because that's all we're told, and these people are okay with that when it's not a loved one. Recently, there was a letter to the editor that or not even a letter to the editor, it was an email directed towards me that where we'll just call this individual BS because pretty much everything he wrote is nothing but BS. In the first place, he accused me of writing a piece that read like
a hit job and not responsible journalism. And it was just one of those ridiculous accusations because again he has a relationship of some type, whether it's a friendship, family member, I don't care. With the accused individual, of course, he then goes on to ask where the facts and tries to defend and then makes his own accusations that I guess I'm supposed to print his acu usations and defense of the accused because he's a credible sword. He's more
credible than police. But my boss be jumped into the email chain to defend and say yes, he had read every part of the story and that it was no. At no point did I interject my opinion that I attributed everything to police, And yet Captain Genius here, mister BS himself could not accept that because his well, why should you just trust police, genius, they're the only ones talking.
That's how ninety percent. No, no, that's how ninety nine point nine percent of these type of initial arrest stories work. A lot of times, I've found that some of the people that come and are angry, they're projecting their anger at the individual that was arrested, accused put in the situation onto us because they're upset that the friend, family member, loved one was arrested. I don't think that's the case
with mister BS. I think he's just a moron just because every counter fact thrown at him, it shows that he does not understand journalism, and the slightest, although he wants to project himself as an expert on the matter of journalism, it's clear that this guy has sat down and watched a Few Good Men one too many times, or My Bad All the President's Men one too many times, a Few good Men, different movie. But he sits back and wants to project this he's seen these Hollywood newspaper
films and thinks that's the way that journalism works. It's not. Sometimes you have to take the information that you're given and you have to wait for the trial before the other side's story gets told, merely because they're not talking. If mister BS wants to get this accused individual to sit down and give us an interview with their side of the story, guess what we'll do, moron, We will do that. But that's not going to happen. That's not
going to happen. There's not going Here's the other thing. If the accused is able to flip the table on the accuser in a particular case, and the accuser ends up getting arrested, we're going to cover that too. These are the things that these people don't seem to understand. We're awesome when it's a story that is on their side. We're unprofessional and tabloid when it's not. It's an absurd, idiotic take to believe that there was any malice there.
Mister BS obviously thinks that I know the accused. I had never met the accused before that day. Honestly, I didn't even meet the accused that day because the accused refused to even really look up at me. So you can sit back and you can get on your high horse and pretend that you understand what journalism is when
it's clear the more you speak you do not. It is clear that the more that you reply, reply, reply, you should probably just shut up because you're just only making yourself look dumber and number mister BS, because again, you're full of bs. That's who you are, that's what you are. That's the reality of your lack of knowledge on any basic understanding of how journalism works. I'm sure there'll be more moments like this in my career that
I'm going to sit back and laugh at. But it is awesome knowing that you have a boss like Jim Sigalski, who when you're in the right, you know he's going to defend you vehemently, and that is something that makes him one of the best folks to work for. That's why we as a group rally and work hard behind him.
It's just it's a great atmosphere for sure. And maybe maybe mister BS should stop watching all the Hollywood movies about reporters and actually study a little bit about how journalism actually works, and maybe then he could understand why an initial arrest story is usually told from the perspective of the police. This has been morning Coffee with the Right Side and I'm your host, Jack Fairchilds and we're
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