Truth is very important to me. I was a reporter for about 10 years, and reporting facts and both sides to a story is something I took very seriously. I did make some mistakes when I first started, and it is easy to slant a story the way you want, but I had a good first editor and a couple more after that who steered me in the right direction. I once did a story on a local man who had been issued a warrant for his arrest for not paying his library fines. His lawyer got himself on television news and seemed to try to make the library look bad. He bypassed his (us) hometown newspaper, so I was put in the position to cover the story the day after it had already broke on TV. It irked me that this lawyer bypassed us and went straight to the TV news stations in a nearby larger town, so I interviewed the library staff and board to get more of their side, which I didn't think the television reporters did too well. I knew the people who worked at the library and some of the board members an...
Here in this corner of the Internet, I share my life experiences and opinions on a variety of topics. My goal is to be as truthful as possible. Sometimes truth offends people, but wouldn't life be boring if we were never offended or challenged?