Most of us who end up doing what I do probably don’t set out to become citizen journalists.
We’re just curious people who care about what’s true, and, when we stumble upon information that has been overlooked, we feel compelled to get the word out.
At least that’s how I ended up spending two weeks covering the story of Ian Roberts, the disgraced former Des Moines superintendent who turned out to have lied about pretty much everything.
When headlines first appeared about a school district superintendent being arrested as an illegal alien, the universal reaction was disbelief. Sensational headlines often mislead, but this time the stories offered no hint of a reasonable explanation.
The mystery of how Roberts rose so high intrigued me. I’m allergic to dishonesty, so once I realized I had a liar in my sights, I kept digging.
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