At the end of every year, the airwaves compete for our attention on programming that ‘looks back’ at the past year. People we’ve lost in 2015. The 10 biggest news stories of 2015. The greatest gaffes of the past year. Stories that made us cry in 2015. Year-end magazine issues follow the same playbook. Whistleblower doesn’t look back. Whistleblower Eschews Rear-view Mirror I suppose there is a public appetite for retrospectovision since, as we all know, the media’s mission is to serve up what we demand. The newspaper adage, ‘if it bleeds, it leads’, is more a comment on us than it is on the journalism profession. We are vampires who look to media for our next blood meal. Looking ahead is tougher since it’s quite a bit easier to chronicle known facts than it is to predict and guess. But, isn’t this a more worthy task? How do these story proposals grab you? People we’ll lose in 2016. (Not serious, just want to assure you’re paying attention.)
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