Almost every joke about journalists will make me cringe nowadays. They may get redundant but they never get old and they still do just as much damage as ever.

Things like “Oh, you write for the newspaper? Can’t trust those people,” and “Fake news” are usually said with laughs and smiles when they are said to my face but I know that is not always the case when people don’t realize they are talking to a journalist or when they say it out of spite.

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writers at Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.