So yesterday, I am at work when I recieve a phone call from someone (refrain from saying who) who was in an office of power in one of my towns. He was upset about one of my stories about a project going on in town. Plans for one part of the project had gone through and I reported on it. Later in my article I mention future plans that have yet to be discussed.
I told him to wait while I went to get the article but my editor took call instead since she makes all the editing decisions. Next thing I know she is scolding on the phone.
Apparently this guy was upset about the article because it made it seem that the whole project had went through. It is no secret that this guy is opposed to the whole project and often fights the town mayor about it when it comes up. What it came down to and my editor called him out on it was that since he didn't agree with it then we shouldn't report on it.
"You are trying to censor what we print and I'm not going to allow it!" my editor told him on the phone.
The best is he had a problem with what the mayor had said and was angry at the fact that we printed it. Now he is trying to control who I talk to. Not going to happen.
Apparently, he and another guy have tried to do this before with the previous reporter but the reporter stood up to him. My editor thinks that because I'm new and a female, they think they can intimidate me. I don't think so. It's time to pull out the punching gloves.
Come on! I'm ready for this fight!
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