A full house gathered at Point Loma Nazarene University s Colt Hall to hear District Attorney Paul Pfingst, black community activist Sidney Ethridge, labor union leader Mary Grillo and David Kraft, brother of the late Donald Kraft, talk about what the local media does best and how it sometimes falls short on the job. Cliff Albert, director of news and programming at KOGO Radio, moderated the discussion.
Reporters are essentially the megaphone for our message to the community.
The district attorney had a positive message overall for the media, with a few more individual exceptions. I hear others complaining about being misquoted, said Pfingst. In six years as the district attorney, I have never been misquoted. Activist Ethridge expressed the importance of building strong ties with the news media. There are those reporters who know your story and can come in and get to work on it, said Ethridge.