Hurst66: The State newspaper sees an opportunity to sell newspapers and publishes a muck-racking article about the "dirty dozen." In it they rush in and interview 1-2 crushed and crying girls and out of paragraphs and paragraphs of statements select those that heighten the controversy.
The Post and Courier waits eight days before they publish a muck-racking article about two high school boys throwing two 12 ounce water bottles on the sideline of the field and some boys in blue and yellow body paint yelling "cheaters" after a game in which for some amount of time 12 players accidentally played against 11 players. The newspaper calls for a police presence to stop such horrific crimes from being perpetrated in the future; the author of this hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism almost swoons at the sheer insanity of it all.
Of all of the people who made mistakes in all of this, it feels as if the newspapers are the most reprehensible.
