Oregon Media Insiders

That comment is beyond the pale. It's our job as journalists to protect society's most vulnerable people, not publicly humiliate them. I see no benefit to watching Hallman pirouette his tired, inaccurate narrative around a suffering man. Any journalist worth half a paycheck and with a marginal sense of ethics would have put the Provo story down. And a sensible editor would have given it the kill.
Provo was clearly mentally ill and people of his ilk are delicate. Trauma accumulates in their lives in ways rational people can barely understand. The fact that Provo may have been a "suicide waiting to happen" does not excuse Hallman and the O from giving him a hard shove in the wrong direction. That rough a push has consequences for someone that fragile, and yes, possibly even years later. There's simply no excuse.