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Speaker 2: In my time in journalism, which again especially in news writing,
Speaker 2: which is a little under a year at this point
Speaker 2: of course, I've studied journalism, I'm very, very familiar with
Speaker 2: how to handle things. One thing that still amazes me
Speaker 2: is how little the public understands how we have to
Speaker 2: report crime stories, especially when the accused is a friend
Speaker 2: or a family member. They get mad when we report
Speaker 2: what we're told by police. They accuse us of not
Speaker 2: telling both sides of the story. Well, in many of
Speaker 2: these cases, we sit down or we show up at
Speaker 2: the initial court hearing and we ask the accused if
Speaker 2: they care to comment, and most times they don't want
Speaker 2: to comment, usually because they're lawyer, or maybe they're just
Speaker 2: smart enough to know they don't want to say anything
Speaker 2: because it might be used against them. Now we'll show
Speaker 2: up at the trial, we'll cover the trial and that
Speaker 2: will be the time that their side of the story
Speaker 2: gets told. But in the initial arrest, we have to
Speaker 2: go with the police version of events because that's all
Speaker 2: we're told, and these people are okay with that when
Speaker 2: it's not a loved one. Recently, there was a letter
Speaker 2: to the editor that or not even a letter to
Speaker 2: the editor, it was an email directed towards me that
Speaker 2: where we'll just call this individual BS because pretty much
Speaker 2: everything he wrote is nothing but BS. In the first place,
Speaker 2: he accused me of writing a piece that read like
Speaker 2: a hit job and not responsible journalism. And it was
Speaker 2: just one of those ridiculous accusations because again he has
Speaker 2: a relationship of some type, whether it's a friendship, family member,
Speaker 2: I don't care. With the accused individual, of course, he
Speaker 2: then goes on to ask where the facts and tries
Speaker 2: to defend and then makes his own accusations that I
Speaker 2: guess I'm supposed to print his acu usations and defense
Speaker 2: of the accused because he's a credible sword. He's more
Speaker 2: credible than police. But my boss be jumped into the
Speaker 2: email chain to defend and say yes, he had read
Speaker 2: every part of the story and that it was no.
Speaker 2: At no point did I interject my opinion that I
Speaker 2: attributed everything to police, And yet Captain Genius here, mister
Speaker 2: BS himself could not accept that because his well, why
Speaker 2: should you just trust police, genius, they're the only ones talking.
Speaker 2: That's how ninety percent. No, no, that's how ninety nine
Speaker 2: point nine percent of these type of initial arrest stories work.
Speaker 2: A lot of times, I've found that some of the
Speaker 2: people that come and are angry, they're projecting their anger
Speaker 2: at the individual that was arrested, accused put in the
Speaker 2: situation onto us because they're upset that the friend, family member,
Speaker 2: loved one was arrested. I don't think that's the case
Speaker 2: with mister BS. I think he's just a moron just
Speaker 2: because every counter fact thrown at him, it shows that
Speaker 2: he does not understand journalism, and the slightest, although he
Speaker 2: wants to project himself as an expert on the matter
Speaker 2: of journalism, it's clear that this guy has sat down
Speaker 2: and watched a Few Good Men one too many times,
Speaker 2: or My Bad All the President's Men one too many times,
Speaker 2: a Few good Men, different movie. But he sits back
Speaker 2: and wants to project this he's seen these Hollywood newspaper
Speaker 2: films and thinks that's the way that journalism works. It's not.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to take the information that you're given
Speaker 2: and you have to wait for the trial before the
Speaker 2: other side's story gets told, merely because they're not talking.
Speaker 2: If mister BS wants to get this accused individual to
Speaker 2: sit down and give us an interview with their side
Speaker 2: of the story, guess what we'll do, moron, We will
Speaker 2: do that. But that's not going to happen. That's not
Speaker 2: going to happen. There's not going Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: If the accused is able to flip the table on
Speaker 2: the accuser in a particular case, and the accuser ends
Speaker 2: up getting arrested, we're going to cover that too. These
Speaker 2: are the things that these people don't seem to understand.
Speaker 2: We're awesome when it's a story that is on their side.
Speaker 2: We're unprofessional and tabloid when it's not. It's an absurd,
Speaker 2: idiotic take to believe that there was any malice there.
Speaker 2: Mister BS obviously thinks that I know the accused. I
Speaker 2: had never met the accused before that day. Honestly, I
Speaker 2: didn't even meet the accused that day because the accused
Speaker 2: refused to even really look up at me. So you
Speaker 2: can sit back and you can get on your high
Speaker 2: horse and pretend that you understand what journalism is when
Speaker 2: it's clear the more you speak you do not. It
Speaker 2: is clear that the more that you reply, reply, reply,
Speaker 2: you should probably just shut up because you're just only
Speaker 2: making yourself look dumber and number mister BS, because again,
Speaker 2: you're full of bs. That's who you are, that's what
Speaker 2: you are. That's the reality of your lack of knowledge
Speaker 2: on any basic understanding of how journalism works. I'm sure
Speaker 2: there'll be more moments like this in my career that
Speaker 2: I'm going to sit back and laugh at. But it
Speaker 2: is awesome knowing that you have a boss like Jim Sigalski,
Speaker 2: who when you're in the right, you know he's going
Speaker 2: to defend you vehemently, and that is something that makes
Speaker 2: him one of the best folks to work for. That's
Speaker 2: why we as a group rally and work hard behind him.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a great atmosphere for sure. And maybe
Speaker 2: maybe mister BS should stop watching all the Hollywood movies
Speaker 2: about reporters and actually study a little bit about how
Speaker 2: journalism actually works, and maybe then he could understand why
Speaker 2: an initial arrest story is usually told from the perspective
Speaker 2: of the police. This has been morning Coffee with the
Speaker 2: Right Side and I'm your host, Jack Fairchilds and we're
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