>>My first journalism professor said one thing you are going to need in this business is a 100% foolproof BS detector, because you are going to run into lots of it. The powers that be want to write history in their own words. To me that case involving a bunch of entitled Dukies and their equally entitled parents was a good example.
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>Mike, my first boss once told me (jokingly), "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story". :)
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>Just because the 3 Duke Lacrosse players were a bunch of rich kids who went to beer parties and adult entertainment clubs - it doesn't make them criminals.
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>You can believe what you want, but you're doing so against a substantial tide of evidence.
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>If anyone was trying to "write history in their own words", it was Nifong. And he got disbarred (and prosecuting attorneys don't get disbarred very often)
I am worn out from arguing with you at a ridiculous hour so will just leave you with a couple more Haineyisms (Dick Hainey, RIP).
"You have to be aggressive but you don't have to be one of those people who go in a revolving door behind you and try to come out in front."
In response to one of my opinionated article assignments: "Mr. Beane, you are the Joie Chitwood of the keyboard, one of those guys who tries to dive 100 yards into a damp cloth."
He was the last editor of Chicago Today, a now forgotten Chicago newspaper. Northwestern was lucky to get him. This was back in the Woodward and Bernstein era, before journalist became a dirty word.
Good night.
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