Glenn Mollette

Letter: John Skipper, Blackmail in America — Who needs that?

Editor, There is no such thing as buying someone's silence. Silence really doesn't exist. If people want to tell the world, it's easy to do. Tell one other person in the world, and if the information is grimy enough, it will be retold a thousand or a million times. Bad news travels fast. Sordid news, for some reason, always rises to the top. Regardless of how hard you try to cover it, you can't. Blogs, news media, social media and the massive ability to communicate around the globe sends bad news out faster than a Texas tornado.