Journalists realize risks come with the territory in their profession because they sometimes are the bearers of information readers, listeners or viewers don’t want to see or hear. Like it or not, violence is news because it isn’t the norm, or isn’t supposed to be. Northeast Georgia fortunately escaped a lot of turbulence during civil rights struggles of the past few decades, but it was the bull’s-eye for some incidents that produced international headlines.
Covering racial issues sometimes was hazardous