Higgin's appropriately laid blame where blame is due and then tried to talk his way out of it:<div>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The agree part: Because of increased competition between newspapers, websites, talk shows, the entire social media phenomenon, more and more people in the media are under pressure to report or comment on every little thing that happens in a program. This is to drive readers to their websites or newspapers or whatever.</p><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">In this zeal, there's much sacrifice of journalistic ethics, because many of the people reporting news haven't been trained as journalists. They don't understand ethics. They have no filter. To them, any said, overheard or rumored is fair game.</p><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">If it weren't for people like you and your ilk Ron Higgins then there might be a little more openness. Your breed of "journalists" would be allowed more access. Unfortunately, the world of 'gotcha' has caught up. Go ask Maynard the Goat at Silky's for some sports commentary.</p></span></div>