We news organizations report facts. We do not coddle your feelings.

Quite frankly, it is not our job to walk you through the emotional trauma of something. It's our job to tell you what happened, straight and to the point. If we screw up, it's on us. However, when something is factually correct, you can't scream for us to take it down because it hurts your ego. That's not how this works.

The scales of justice tip both ways; they tip for you and they tip against you. We know this better than anyone, we see it unfold constantly. Sometimes we have to print something that we really don't want to. Sometimes we print things about people we know from our neighborhoods, people we knew from high school. It's painful sometimes. You know this going into the job and you accept the good with the bad. You make sure it's airtight, publish the piece and deal with whatever comes.

Sometimes people just cannot understand why they are being "targeted." Here's the truth of it: you're not being targeted. Nobody is being targeted. The news is a system of wheels and gears. If something fits the mold of what news is, it gets published. If it's noteworthy and needs to be published, it does. Sometimes it hurts people. Sometimes it helps people. I'd personally like to think that each news piece out there helps more people than it hurts, but I would be naive to believe that all news centers are as honest as the ones I work for.

If you don't like what is being published, respectfully address it with the person in charge. If something is false, bring concrete proof of the falsities and we will gladly correct it and issue a notice of our mistakes.

Don't dox the editors and harass the staff. Don't have your friends, who have never dealt with the publication in their lives, leave 40 million negative reviews and comments. It's pathetic. Don't act like petulant children who don't get their way because you don't like what came out.

People are complex. Your loved ones are complex. Everyone has a side they wouldn't show their mothers or their friends, one they are ashamed of. Sometimes that side gets out. It's our job to report the facts.

We're not sensationalizing it. We're doing our jobs.