I don't think there is anything to deal with... I wouldn't call her a menace either. I am not calling for a witchhunt.
I started the thread to inform all of the incident simply because I was disturbed that I received a pm from the reporter asking me to not "mouth off" it and in that email she seemed to indicate that she is baiting for information.
I am a media professional myself so I know the meaning of ethics in this line of work. Coming into the forum, pretending to be someone you are not, cooking up a story that might or might not happen and then asking people who doubt it to "shut it". That is so wrong...... and no self respecting reporter would ever do something like that. It makes me wonder if you are one of those kids that took part in a CNA show about young budding reporters.... those that whine when the interviewee was uncooperative.
Well I don't respect you (the reporter) as a professional and I really sincerely hope you are one of a kind, because I dread what kind of reporters are our newspapers churning out if methods such as that by the reporter is condoned.