juan: my first job in journalism was at the philadelphia daily news in 1978.arted as a general assignment reporter. before my rookie year was up, the iran hostage crisis had erupted. and i'll never forget being in the newsroom one day and going to the bulletin board, where employees posted all kinds of information on things for sale and other things of interest, and there was a petition on the bulletin board by many of the reporters at the philadelphia daily news, an open letter to the white house demanding that if the hostages were harmed, that we should nuke tehran. these were intelligent reporters in a major metropolitan newspaper openly saying we should drop a nuclear bomb on iran solve the crisis that we were facing. so, of course, i was shocked, to say the least. so i went in to my editor-in-chief. i was just a young reporter at the time, and the editor-in-chief had taken a liking to me. and i said, "you have a policy of allowing a reporter to submit an opinion piece for the paper. i want to submit an opinion piece to counter this thing on the bulletin b