Spinning the plates of ethics and obligation

As a community weekly newspaper, we don’t often get the opportunity to break news stories that end up going global, but that is exactly what happened to the news staff at the Cushing Citizen last week. There was excitement in the newsroom about a story this big landing at our doorstep, but there was also some trepidation.

This story took us to an ethical crossroads where we were going to have to we…