Journalistic Integreity

Miles Tillerman. Journalist for the LA Gazette.

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[thebetterhawkeye]

[pm] You should be. I left myself open. I should have let her run and cornered her another day. Maybe should have asked Clint for help getting her, since last time I got her she escaped as well. But that’s not important. Never mind.

I don’t hate you, Miles. Yeah, I know I’m not acting like a good friend, but life and shit. I don’t know. But why did you have to publish the article? He’s just Pietro. He doesn’t, I mean, I get it’s your job. But you didn’t publish me. I mean, I know you think it’s the publics right to know who vigilantes are. But isn’t  it more important that they are safe? Who else is going to come in and stop aliens. Who else is going to stop Death from taking over L.A. I guess, Miles, I guess I really just don’t get why. 

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[pm] I said I’m sorry and I really mean it. 

Because that was my job, Kate. You always knew that was my job. I thought I was doing the right thing. This was the first time it had gotten personal, he got under my skin, I was acting on anger and I know that I shouldn’t have done all that I did, or written all that I did, but I can’t undo it. I wasn’t going to publish- once I found out about you, things just- it complicated things. But then the prison break happened, and I thought I was chasing the right leads and doing the right thing, but I wasn’t. Hindsight. 

[bobbimorsephd]

You can’t find that kind of environment at a newspaper? Seems to me that’s the perfect place for it. That or an artists’ commune of some sort.

[fact-before-fiction]

Maybe that’s how it used to be, but in the modern world of newspaper, not so much. Everythings too fast paced now, more about putting stuff online right as it happens then really digging down and trying to find the heart of a story. 

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[thebetterhawkeye]

[pm] Doesn’t matter. You have nothing to be sorry for. Thanks for uh, thanks for making sure I got the the hospital by the way. 

[fact-before-fiction]

[pm] Doesn’t mean I’m not sorry. You’re hurt and you’re my friend, and regardless of the circumstances at hand, I’m sorry for that. And you don’t need to thank me. I’d do anything for you.

Look, I know things have been weird. And I know you kinda hate me, or at lesast thats how it seems from this end. But you’re still my best friend, Kate. And I know I fucked up, and I know the Pietro article was petty and shitty, and I know the Vegas wedding stuff was scary and confusing, and you can keep ignoring me and pushing me away, but I still care about you. 

[thebetterhawkeye]

[pm] Her and Pietro are close? Pietro Maximoff? Pietro ‘I’m super fast, can’t sit still and make stupid decisions all the time’ Maximoff is close with Freddie Fischer? That, but… .he told me at the party, if they were close why would he have said? Well futz. You learn something knew everyday. 

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[pm] I mean, I never followed up with Pietro to verify, but from what she said- yeah, it sounded like they were close. She asked me to look into him before... well before I knew who he was. I’m sorry- I didn’t know that you didn’t know that. 

[bobbimorsephd]

Eh, I don’t know if I would. Maybe it’s being in a scientific field, but I’ve never found myself lacking in learning opportunities. And at least my endeavors this side of a degree don’t have grades attached to them. Are you really telling me you’d like to go back to writing for your school’s paper and also have a Spanish midterm the day after your article is due?

[fact-before-fiction]

Well, for starters, I didn’t take Spanish. But yes, I really would want to go back. Maybe I’d get shit right the second time around. I thrive on the pressure of deadlines, and there’s something so powerful about the passion of a college student. It’s just such a creative environment, it’s hard to find something like that elsewhere.  

[thebetterhawkeye]

[pm] I took her down in El Paso the night before. The police showed up and I left. How did she make it back to L.A. so fast? What am I missing? Do you think she’s still in L.A.?

[fact-before-fiction]

[pm] I honestly don’t know where she is. If she was smart she would have left the city, but that doesn’t mean she did. I know her and Pietro are close, or were close. A bit of a stretch, but he does have the ability to get people from place to place very quickly. 

[bobbimorsephd]

That was one of my favorite things about school, and probably one of the reasons I stayed in it for so long. I loved finding something I loved and just having the freedom to pursue it to the fullest. That was so liberating and empowering. You find a teacher you love, you take all of her classes. Fantastic!

[fact-before-fiction]

Oh yeah, school was thrilling while it lasted. And then you enter the real world which is far less thrilling and it’s just all downhill from there. If I could go back and do it all over again, I would without hesitation.

[thebetterhawkeye]

[pm] Miles, I feel like I’m missing something. Do you know Freddie well?

[fact-before-fiction]

[pm] Not really well. I just knew she was Freddie. I didn’t know she was hotwired or what she was wrapped up in. 

[bobbimorsephd]

How long is ‘a while’? Well it was going to be obstetrics and gynecology, but I found a passion in biochem and dropped the pre-med track for a bio/chem double major. I ended up getting my PhD in biochemistry, so it would seem it was a smart choice.

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For about three years in college. The head of the philosophy department was amazing, so I tried to take as many of her classes as possible. Wow, there’s not a lot of ways to one-up pre-med but you certainly just did. Yeah, I’d say any feild you get a doctorate in is a good choice. 

[bobbimorsephd]

I knew the quote. I read Walden Two in undergrad and went through a whole…philosophical phase. It didn’t mesh with premed so I quickly dropped it, but I remember a few things.

[fact-before-fiction]

Then my statement of impression stands. I’m pretty sure I’m still going through a philosophical phase. Philosophy and journalism mesh better than it does with premed though, so I stuck with it for a while in college. Pre-med is very impressive in its own right though. What was your concentration?

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bobbimorsephd replied to your post:Which is worse, failing or never trying?

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

A Skinner quote? Impressive. Or, well, potentially impressive. Did you know the quote or did you google quotes about failure?