We tried to deal openly and it paid off so that my recollections are that there are a few people in the media, and I can’t remember all their names, who had a special zoo interest. And they would come to the zoo on their own without necessarily being told that there was something special, they just enjoyed hanging around the zoo and getting stories, getting pictures. For some reason, the name Bob Haggart comes to mind as a photographer for maybe the early Chicago American Paper. And Bob who would be at the zoo, and he, of course, got a lot of so-called scoops because he happened to be there when something happened. And the colleagues would all give me a hard time saying, “But you can’t do that, “you’ve got to treat us all equally.” And I would explain what happened that I didn’t try to get around that open policy, which I felt that I had and it paid off. So I think the media in Chicago have been kind to Lincoln Park, and Lincoln Park at least during my time reacted positively with the press. It’s like many things in life, you can either be fortunate, and lucky, and be a winner, or you can stub your toe and have some bad issues. I found by and large that dealing with the press openly and telling them the truth on animals that died or had some issue that they finally respected it.
