<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Pete Zicari:
Parts of the USA Today report on Jack Kelley are online. The scariest part is probably this one:<p>Chapter 4: Climate of fear?<p>Question of the night: Does the condition extend down the food chain to lesser papers?<hr></blockquote><p>That's a rhetorical question, right?<p>One of my early lessons about the need to fight involved an expose that identified a witness before he was to appear before a grand jury. The story also mocked the accused. I repeatedly questioned the propriety of the story, but acquiesced to the more experienced and powerful in the newsroom.<p>That man never testified. Instead, his battered body was found on a mountain. According to the autopsy report, he probably died of torture before the gunfire began.
The grand jury had nothing to go on. The accused walked. The paper never printed another word to follow its expose. The disaster was never discussed.