You can have my booze when you can pry it from my cold, dead, underage fingers

Andrea McCarren, local DC news reporter for WUSA, found out the hard way what happens when you get between a teenager and his alcohol. The Washington Post reports that McCarren took herself off the story when her two kids became the target of sustained harassment at school because mommy was telling the truth.

“Way to go! Not,” bellowed one enraged, online college student. “You are now probably the MOST hated woman in the D.C. area. Yay you! What was the point really of doing that story? No one finds it interesting (well that’s obvious anyways because its channel 9 news), but you also just ruined weekends for all kids underage.”*

The Post draws upon its vast journalistic experience to put McCarren’s plight in context: ‘While reporters in foreign locales are often harassed and sometimes injured or killed, local TV journalists rarely face a sustained bullying response to their stories, said Mike Cavender, executive director of the Radio Television Digital News Association, a Washington group that represents journalists. “I couldn’t say it never happened,” he said of McCarren’s experience. “I would say it’s unusual. It’s not one I’ve encountered” in 25 years in the news business.’ .