Feeding frenzy

UPDATED Saturday @1:15pm: Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute, (quoted below) after reading my post, dropped me an email early this morning and offers this clarification: "I think I said the job of the journalist is NOT to NEVER invade privacy, but to respect privacy. We do invade privacy when there is a legitimate reason--when the invasion is outweighed by the public good."Miami experienced an