A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.