Killing the messenger
Election time is stressful for me; I’ve already put in for a vacation for Thanksgiving week. (I’d hoped that The Burning Crusade might be released then, so I could fully geek out and decompress, but I suspect it won’t be released that week after all.)
Every election cycle, I turn into Public Enemy #1 with at least a portion of the readers. This week, I had a supporter of one of the incumbent school board members come into the office and express his extreme displeasure at length and in no uncertain terms, and I have a feeling that next week, supporters of the teachers union candidates might offer a similar point of view.
It’s been worse, of course: In 2004, the supporters of two different city council candidates demanded that I be fired.
Everyone tells me that, if everyone’s mad at me for my political coverage, I’m probably doing a good job, and they might be right. But it sure doesn’t feel that way. And yes, it’s the job I signed up for; there’s no draft for reporters, far from it.
Thank goodness elections only take place on even years.
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After a few years, objective reporting will earn you the respect of all the pros in the political process. The zealots you can never convert. The facts are the facts but they are not always what people want to hear.
Comment by Dmitry — October 14, 2006 @ 18:52
Just goes to show you how much power you guys have.
“With great power comes great responsibility” — Spiderman’s Uncle
Take down Honeycutt and the other corrupt bastards Spidey!
Comment by Henry Hesperia — October 15, 2006 @ 10:32