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In 1989 during my first gig as an investigative reporter with the Guam Tribune, my editor sat me down and I’ve never forgotten his warning, “It’s the job of the news media to report the news, not incite it.” Tell that to ABC News. In a letter to David Westin , President of ABC NEWS from Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition… Dear Mr. Westin: I am alarmed by an experience I had with employees of ABC News during a demonstration against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in New York on Sunday, August 22, 2010. As the rally concluded, thousands of the participants marched the one block from the rally site to the actual site of Ground Zero. It was there that I noticed a man in a black shirt with a phone camera, aggressively questioning a gentleman with a sign which read “No Sharia Here.” This man was haranguing the gentleman with the sign. A reasonable person would have recognized it as provocation, which exceeded the bounds of any legitimate interview technique. “It’s the job of the news media to report the news, not incite it.”