Sometimes it’s not fun to be a journalist, to witness and report on things that are uncomfortable, if not ugly.
In the case with our story on page 1 about the sentencing of Gene Mayfield, it was “the saddest thing I’ve ever covered,” as reporter Sean Morgan put it when he returned to our office.
We’ve reported many sad stories during The New Era’s 90 years of covering Sweet Home. They come with the territory…