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the community, but must be an impartial observer on the sidelines, not a player or a cheerleader.
This journalistic distance that must be maintained is sometimes misunderstood as aloofness, lack of caring, or even hostility. The smaller the community, the larger this problem looms. It is built into the editor’s job at a small newspaper like the Rappahannock News, and Mary Ann handled it as well as anyone can.
In any community, good things and bad things happen. Both become news. Reporting the bad things upsets some people, as does missing some of the good things—which is unavoidable given the
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