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	Keeping It a Family Newspaper By Ken Tingley Glens Falls Post-Star June 11, 2008 http://poststar.com/wordpress/?p=5064&cat=49 One of the less appealing parts of my job as editor is when our city editor or assistant city editor comes into my office sometime in the late afternoon and says, "You probably should read this." It usually means they have flagged a controversial story that I should read before it is printed. That was the case of the front page story of the pastor who was arrested for a public sex act. These stories often make readers uncomfortable. They worry that younger children will read them as well. Sometimes we are even accused of taking on a tabloid mentality to sell more newspapers. Unfortunately, these stories are news and when they involve prominent people in the community or happen in public, they need to be reported. In this case, I found one paragraph a little too graphic for the story and asked the editor to take it out of the story. It was public information and came from the police report, but I felt it went too far. We try to maintain standards of our community and be a paper that anyone in the family can read. It seems like that has become increasingly difficult these days.
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