Go Public

 Today after reading a previous article regarding proven abuse by a professional, another individual decided that it, too, would lodge a victim complaint. I'm not going to state much more about this person because, frankly, the tale is a no-tale. Such nonsense is called "hogwash" but it draws the occasional hungry reader to the swill just the same. It appears that now, many so-called reporters are "independents", and can write up just about anything someone jogs along and tells them. They are hungry for a "story", something juicy to feed the equally peckish reader looking for a tale of woe to cluck over.  It makes me wonder when I read some of these, fortunately rare, "reports" where on earth their scribers came from.  Behind a fast food counter perhaps or out of a large room full of computer folk clicking away all day in their little booths. Not that there is anything bad about holding down an honest job, any job.  While the independent reporter, one of the kind who have a degree of written English and a hard aspiration  toward being hired as a reporter by one of the paper biggies (dream on) does it to attempt to collect a steady salary and become a professional journalist. If that happens, the newby will quickly learn the code that truly fine journalists adhere to. It is not an easy calling.  Like ambulance chasers and the paparazzi, the amateurs scout about, still hanging on to their day jobs, just-in-case, while trying to sniff up some dirt to scribble and submit, if nothing else, their picture will end the texting on the thing and glean, for their future,  further attention. And apparently, as in this lame article that offers zilch as proof of the complainants case as being abused, the verbiage says nothing that holds an iota of authority. The whole rather well written, but completely air-filled with the hot stuff , piece, is nothing but the hearsay of the complainer. In the four or five paragraph article with photographs of the attractive victim, there is not a shred of any sort of documented fact,  other than the so-called victim's own statement.  It speaks of a setting that is believable enough, but the "pain" experienced is the victim's related experience alone. The supposed victim tells that a friend had the same routine medical procedure with no pain, while in itself did have extreme pain, and blames the perpetrator for it. There were others present, but apparently the amateur reporter deigned to gather supportive comment. Oops not very professional. Broad hints of monetary reparation were revealed as being sought by the victim, with no veracity to the tale whatsoever. I noted that the victim's photo as well, appeared somewhat digitally enhanced. It seems everyone likes to appear their very best even when exposing personally ill situations  to the media. Of course the media likes it, too, since everyone, especially news readers, are drawn to a comely face. I rarely see many, what I call "homely" people, these days. anyway. They all disappeared sometime around the wide spread use of  laser,  pimple cream and Botox. At any rate it seems that anyone can be a reporter. Just make sure to call yourself "an independent reporter".