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Keep them on side

See? You as a reporter have to be careful. Always double check. Don’t take anything as read, etc. etc.

If you are a reporter who is worth your salt, you’ll understand this perfectly.

Anyways, it’s a fine line to walk. You don’t want to say anything bad about the people who feed you stories, but at the same time, you have to remain impartial and independent – if that were at all possible.

How do you walk that fine line?

Well, I’ll let you figure that one out on your own.

Here are media examples of people who keep others on side – which means, again simply put, on their side:

1. Maeve Higgins has arrived at a pub on Dublin’s Exchequer Street carrying her latest discovery: the gym bag. We are a few doors down from Cornucopia, a vegetarian restaurant and unofficial dining spot for Higgins’s fans. Whenever the Cork comedian goes in for a bite to eat, she is approached by women of her own age — usually in flowery dresses, most likely owners of basketed bicycles — and asked about a possible second series of Fancy Vittles, the comedy cookery show she and her sister Lilly made for RTE in 2009.

Vegetarians love her stuff. Sometimes Higgins pretends she still is one, just to keep them on side. Yet the truth is that the comedian — who used to hide during PE class and once had ethical objections to consuming our four-legged friends — is now a protein-scoffing exercise junkie.