Throughout my career in the newspaper business, whether it was a high school kid writing some sports for my parents’ newspapers in Shelton and Gibbon, or in my younger career, and even yet today as I stare down the barrel of my 57th birthday, there are just situations and days that really cause me to scratch my head.
Most of it centers around the so-called “coffee shop talk,” in other words, the gossip of any community that I’ve lived in and worked in, yes, even in Lincoln, Omaha, Phoenix or Colorado Springs.
I’ve been around some amazing journalists and have worked with some of the best, and if there’s one thing that we all scratch our heads about is misinformation that bleeds out into the community, even after a story is written in a community newspaper, or even the bigger daily publications.