THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM ON THE Rebecca Aguilar story:

Her report is off the station’s Web site and has been pulled from YouTube and other venues. If she ever returns to work at KDFW, the station will be inundated with phone calls. NAHJ will be criticized for its support of Aguilar because detractors will say it is based only on ethnicity, not ethics and professionalism.

According to her profile on the station’s Web site, Aguilar said she got into journalism, and into television in particular, because she wanted to help people.

“I’ve been a television reporter for more than two decades,” she writes near the end of that profile.

“And even though I have won several awards (including several Emmys and 2005 Texas A.P. Reporter of the year), nothing is more rewarding than someone who says I made their lives a little better cause I listened and told ‘their story.'”

I wonder what James Walton thinks about his story and its aftermath.

As the Dallas Morning News noted earlier, the story embodies people’s worst impressions about journalists and journalism.

UPDATE: From professional journalist to punch line. And in the comments: “Are you a sedentary person? Do you like sitting on people?”