By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on May 17, 2010 at 12:28pm

Bristol Herald Courier Names Student Athlete Who Urinated on Field During National Anthem

-- May 16, 2010: The Bristol Herald Courier editor stood by his decision to name the athlete who urinated on the field during the national anthem.

"It’s one of the ironies of journalism: We can spend 13 months on a controversial series that eventually wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and not receive a single criticism from readers. And then we run a daily story on a high school athlete urinating on a baseball field during the National Anthem and the floodgates open.

Such was the case with our Thursday story about a Powell Valley High School student in Big Stone Gap, Va. The sophomore and star quarterback, the son of a coach/physical education teacher, urinated in public last month on a $20 bet.

The controversy is about our decision to name the teenager. To avoid piling on, I won’t name him again here, but I will defend our decision – one we spent many hours agonizing over Wednesday night."

The full story:
http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/opinion/columnists/article/j._todd_foster_column_it_was_a_tough_call_but_paper_stands_by_it/46249/

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