Do you still beat your wife? (1901)

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

In the early '70s, WRC-TV in Washington, DC. interviewed me at some length for the local evening news.  I was referred to as "Sean Fitzgerald".

I immediately formulated this law:  "In any news story about which you have personal knowledge or direct experience, you will find errors".  I would call it Fitzger...Fitzpatrick's Law, but a few years later I read of a journalist who had already formulated the same observation.   For some reason it has not been enshrined in the Journalism Hall of Fame. 


Seán Fitzpatrick
The ends had better justify the means.
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