In an emotional Feb. 2 column (“Why we didn’t cover the local convoy rally”), we were informed by the editor of the Citizen that a local protest had not been covered in the news pages because some reporters had been mistreated at a previous protest. In short, decisions about news coverage were made based on the injured feelings of journalists.
So when we read in a Feb.18 column (“Why we didn't name the donors”) by the editor that the Citizen will publicly name anyone who can be confirmed to have contributed to those now-illegal protests, it is difficult not to believe that this decision was also motivated by hurt feelings. If I were on that list, I would think I had been threatened as payback.
Journalists don’t have to be good to have social power in a community, but no journalist is good who misuses it.
Boris DeWiel
Prince George
