A couple of years back, San Diego Police released the mug shot and name of a 17-year-old murder suspect to the local media. The kid was on the loose and, in the standard law-enforcement wording, "armed and dangerous." A journalistic judgement had to to be made. Does the newspaper run the mug shot? The initial […]
There are certain statements that usually get you fired. I knew a guy who got fired for telling his boss the infamous "Dick Cheney" line. Voters should fire Rep. Bob Filner for this line: “I am a congressman and can do whatever I want,” [immigration supervisor Juan J.] Ramirez quoted Filner as saying. That's it. […]