Should we have practiced journalism of rote regurgitation?
As in the case of the dog that did not bark, the solution to the mystery may lie in the answer to the question: Why? On Monday the morning newspaper reported that 20 years ago the same paper, when I was editor, decided to “spike” a draft of an account about an ongoing lawsuit against casino owner Steve Wynn, apparently one claiming gender and age discrimination because one of Wynn’s casinos had created a policy requiring waitresses to lose weight[…]