Book Review: You Ought To Do a Story About Me (after the NFL)
Reply You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption, by Ted Jackson (HarperCollins, $27.99, 329 pages, 2020) 1990 How many times has a journalist or reporter heard this: "You ought to do a story about me"? Subscribe Suppose you, the journalist or reporter, met a homeless man on the street, engaged him in conversation and learned he had played in the NFL and more than one Superbowls. Would you believe him? Would it make front page news? This actually happened to author and photo-journalist Ted Jackson in Louisiana. The player was Jack...