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Old Wed Mar 09, 2011, 11:01am
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Originally Posted by bainsey View Post
It's simple, really. A reporter's job is to report. To leave out a key fact is not doing his/her job.

As for the criminality of it all, I think Rich is dead on. If we start filing criminal charges on every excessive contact in a sporting event, I can't begin to imagine how that would change high school sports as we know it.
Seriously, what the he!! difference does having the kid's name in the paper make? There is no reason to publish his name - it is not a "key fact" in any way.
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