I was recently sent to San Antonio to cover game one of the Jazz vs the Spurs. I got there late at night and had about 2 hours to put together a story, any kind of story. I decided to head downtown to give Utah viewers a feel of what night life was like, hopefully with some kind of connection to the Utah Jazz.
I interviewed people in restaurants, bars, a homeless person, people on the street and then I came across a street preacher. He had set up a step stool and was shouting about the wrath of God coming down on all of us. I walked up with a microphone and asked him who would win the game the next day, the Spurs or the Jazz. His reply...."Jesus will win." I used that in my story and the next day received a few e-mails calling the report shameful and exploitive. C'mon folks, lighten up. This was simply a slice of life in San Antonio. We do television news, not brain surgery. We do our best not to offend anyone, but if all of us were a little less sensitive and more able to laugh at things, this might be a better world to live in.