The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
No two people see things the same way.
Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.