Like father, like son

A journalist has been in touch with me to ask advice about an article he is writing on Chuckie Taylor, a US national who is currently facing trial in Florida on torture charges committed while he was living in Liberia. Obviously he's concerned to travel to Liberia to make enquiries about someone who has such bad press. And that's the problem. How do you maintain some kind of objectivity when the first thing you hear about Chuckie is that he shot his driver for hitting a dog with his car? I mean, that's just the beginning... then there's the story of when Chuckie ran someone over on the pavement because the guy didn't stop as he drove past. In the eyes of most people, Taylor..both Taylors are already guilty...even though most people can't even point out where Liberia is on a map.

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