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Journalists all share an obsession with a few things: we love free food and booze, we must be the first to tell any story — big or small, and we love news and information. We seek it out, we drink it up like sponges and we’re a bit obsessed with following it and then reporting it.

I heard about something that happened recently, in Pompano Beach, Florida. I immediately scoured local news sources online to get some details. I spent hours looking for any tidbit of info I could find on this event, which had really shaken me up. Nothing. So I slept on it, and searched again the next day. I checked the New York outlets too, because the story was about a fellow New Yorker. Nothing. Weeks later…after this story unfolded…still nothing. Not a word written anywhere that I could find. I truly expected to find something, some little report or blurb, somewhere. Nothing. Continue reading →