Hack?

It’s been a struggle to write anything meaningful today. I’ve been busy depressing myself with Nevada news articles that deal with little more than either the election or COVID-19.

The more I learn, the more I want to unlearn. Unfortunately, it is my job to know as much as I can before sitting down to write a thoughtful word about any of it.

Plus, I’ve been avoiding social media and those person’s I call ‘trolls,’ who continue to plague my various feeds with hate-filled messages and rants. My list of blocked commenters is growing by leaps and bounds.

The pervasive belief is that I’m some sort of hack, that I lack ethics in my reporting and style. My answer to that has been and remains, “My only ethical standard when reporting the news is the truth.”

Many of these people don’t realize that I’ve been down this road before. In 2006, I was the subject of a “journalism ethics round table,” at UNR, where I was blasted both professionally and as a person for having a personal blog on a public forum while working as a newspaper reporter.

Ha! Ethics my ass. I wasn’t even invited to attend or defend myself, not that it would have done any good.

That aside, I have a touch of ‘house cleaning’ to do regarding the Washoe County Voter Registration dump I received yesterday. After only two-minutes of online research I learned that the supposed-dump came from the website, ‘Geller Report.’

I got so carried away thinking I had some sort of exclusive, that I forgot to complete some ‘due diligence,’ on my part.

Anyway, I am desirous of returning to my old renegade way of news reporting, but that’s jus’ me talking as these ‘trolls’ have me all fired up. And that’s the truth.