re: #22 Charles

Yes, I understand. The point is this - you agree with the reporter’s position. Fair. You are also saying you agree with their method. Well, the method may be summarized: if I have a low opinion of you, I’m free to heckle you. Conceding the validity of this method, you have to concede that it is applicable to all reporters, not just the ones you agree with. The other day, you had a hard time over the “arsehole” exchange on television. Substantively, the conduct you objected to by the skeptic was the same as the conduct of the reporter whose behavior you approve of here. Either everyone gets to do it, or no one does.

For my part, I think it were best if reporters kept their opinions out of it. I understand SixDegrees’s position in #28, but I think the press ought to do better, and we ought approve only of better.