A Reporter's Life


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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Link?

Posted by: merlaan at 3:33 PM, September 09, 2003


Nope, no link. That would be too much if my personal site led to Very Bad Things that I could have prevented.

Posted by: Layla at 7:20 PM, September 09, 2003


I just deleted a big, long, rambling comment that I thought was going somewhere, but really wasn't. Instead, I'm going to say this, which is really the point of what I was going to say:

I don't envy you, but I believe you made the right decision, because you don't tend to choose the wrong decisions.

Posted by: Monkeyman at 8:55 AM, September 10, 2003


I don't doubt that I made the right decision, because at the time I wrote what I did, I had no idea it could have bigger consequences. If I HAD known, would I have still written it? That's a question that has no answer.

Posted by: Layla at 9:15 AM, September 10, 2003


Without any details, what was the story about? I don't care about the who or where, I'm just wondering about the what. I can only glean a little bit of an idea from your post.

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