By Christopher Seely
Southern Voices
Published on June 25, 2004
Excerpt:
Garcia contends that Staley should remain neutral, an argument that has merit, according to Al Tompkins, a media expert at The Poynter Institute, a school for working journalists in Florida.
Reporters should not allow their personal biases to be publicly identifiable, and in Staley’s case, she could have recognized Garcia’s memory as newsworthy instead of taking a personal stand, Tompkins said.
“It might have been reportable that it was not all one big love fest, but that protestors, who protested Reagan in life, still came to this place to protest him in death, too,” Tompkins said.
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