"Thanh Tan was a TV reporter in Boise, Idaho, when her boss passed along what seemed like a hot news tip: a sex offender was working with kids at a local ice rink, as a hockey referee. But when she looked into it, she found out the crime was more than a decade old. Plus, the guy's statutory rape charge had been dismissed by a judge. So she never did the story. But her closest TV news competitor ran with it, making it "exclusive" breaking news, for days. Thanh tells the story of how it got on the air, and how it affected everyone involved. " Here is a link to the episode
It is an interesting story. It goes to show how perception can differ from the truth and how far some people will go to try to succeed. Here is a situation where an organization acted without thought to what would happen to the person they were talking about. Now I do not think that the person in question is innocent, but the reporters NEVER went to him to get the facts, because they wanted an exclusive. The story was so important that NONE of the other news organizations in Boise covered this story.
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