I don't think we've offended people. I think we've surprised people by how direct and candid and smart our stories are. I think they feel revealed. And to the extent that we do tough journalism, we're very careful to always be very accessible to the community. We don't hide from our product, we inhabit it.
People ask all the time.
The secret to the loyal readership we have is that we don't pull punches and we don't run interference for the people we write about. Our reporters and editors are smart and have a huge responsibility to report accurately and fairly. He declared on our front page that there was no drought. And farmers were choking in the dust. Everybody got taken by a guy named Stoecker who built a pyramid scheme, a company called Grabil.