Dangerous press
I rarely think about the power I hold as a journalist, and I don't even usually see it that way. I'm simply a reporter who gets the news and then writes it down so that others will also know. But every once in a while, I'm reminded that my proverbial pen can really affect someone's life -- even in a small city buried in the middle of California.Because of something I wrote, a man may have lost more than one night's sleep as he worried about his safety and the lives of his family members. He wasn't the only one to worry, either.
What I wrote was accurate, and I make no apologies for it. But if that man is ever found murdered, I'll probably always think that I unknowingly gave his killer more motivation. That's a serious thing for me to know.
Posted by Layla at 2:03 PM, September 09, 2003
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