If you're a crime reporter for long enough, you start seeing the world through a distorted lens. Everything is evil. People are always manipulating you. The world is a terrible place. People aren't trustworthy and you have a true lack of faith.
I'd always argue, using my cynical brain, against the words that people said, because I lived inside the police reports that the general public wasn't reading. The murders and brutal crimes against women and children. The autopsies and crime scene photos. It was a brutal world to swim around in. It made sense why so many police detectives drank and smoked. Criminals and even the general public tend to lie or play some angle to benefit their own lives or to just stay out of trouble, or even jail.
It took time to climb out of my cynical way of thinking; at least, the deeper, darker side of cynicism started to fade after I left that beat. But then, as a political reporter, it all came back. No murders. But so much distrust. Political self-interests began to bury the ledes of the stories and that turned into our audiences not gaining any factual information to help their lives. It was verging on TMZ territory.
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Michael Ogden
Editor-in-Chief at CU Times. To connect, email at [email protected]. As Editor-in-Chief of CU Times since 2016, Michael Ogden has led the editorial team in all aspects of content strategy and execution, including the creation of the publication’s exclusive and proprietary research database of the credit union industry’s economic landscape. Under Michael’s leadership, CU Times has successfully shifted to an all-digital editorial product with new focuses on the payments, fraud, lending and regulatory beats. Most recently, he introduced a data-focused editorial product for subscribers that breaks down credit union issues into hard data, allowing for a deeper and more factual narrative for readers. In 2024, he launched the "Shared Accounts With CU Times" podcast, which offers a fresh, inside-the-newsroom perspective through interviews with leaders from the credit union industry and the regulatory world. He dives into pressing credit union issues, while revealing the personalities working behind-the-scenes to push the credit union world forward. His background includes years as a radio and TV anchor/reporter and a public relations and digital/social media manager, where he covered the food and music industries, as well as cooperatives and credit unions. Over the years, he has launched numerous exclusive video and podcast series, including a successful series of interactive backstage interviews with musicians at music festivals, showcasing his social media and live streaming production skills.
