Are you a guard dog?

Hope you are all enjoying your vacation. I'm at the University of Texas, Austin learning about high school journalism. This morning the editor of the Houston Chronicle told us high school journalists need to be watchdogs of the students interests. Student journalists shouldn't be lapdogs that want to sit in important people's laps and lick their faces, said editor Jeff Cohen. Nor should they be attack dogs, unnecessarily biting people. "You want them to be guard dogs growling, or guide dogs," Cohen said.