Comments on: No controversy? No problem http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/06/24/no-controversy-no-problem/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 May 2012 23:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Robert W. McDowell http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/06/24/no-controversy-no-problem/#comment-2750 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:56 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/06/24/no-controversy-no-problem/#comment-2750 When faced with a story like this one, my late friend and fellow journalist Dennis Julian would always ask two questions: 1. Does this story have a point? 2. Why are you telling this story to me? N&O readers might ask the same questions. Apparently, journalism-by-vendetta, a la former N&O head honcho Claude Sitton, is still in vogue on South McDowell Street. Reporters who gather facts to support their editors' biases might just have a little more job security than those who trouble their bosses with pesky questions about the propriety of publishing stories like this one. But the joke is on them, I think "job security" is an oxymoron at the N&O. When faced with a story like this one, my late friend and fellow journalist Dennis Julian would always ask two questions:

1. Does this story have a point?

2. Why are you telling this story to me?

N&O readers might ask the same questions. Apparently, journalism-by-vendetta, a la former N&O head honcho Claude Sitton, is still in vogue on South McDowell Street. Reporters who gather facts to support their editors’ biases might just have a little more job security than those who trouble their bosses with pesky questions about the propriety of publishing stories like this one. But the joke is on them, I think “job security” is an oxymoron at the N&O.

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