Hearing the certainty in Jameson's voice, George glanced at the newspaper in his hand again, then asked Jameson, "Mr. Jameson, you said earlier that the victim contributed articles to the Daily Bugle. What kind of articles did he mainly publish?"
But Jameson wore an awkward expression. Rubbing his hands together, he said, "To be honest, Sheriff George, Hooch and I had some disagreements. That was why we ended our partnership half a year ago. I disagreed with certain views expressed in his articles."
Jameson led George to a quieter area on the other side of the crime scene, where there were fewer unrelated people coming and going. Even so, he lowered his voice before speaking to George.
"Hooch originally wrote biographies of election candidates. He had worked in political journalism for at least ten years. But one day, he suddenly came to me and said he'd read my Daily Bugle articles about Spider-Man and was interested in some of the views I expressed."
"We spent an entire afternoon talking, exchanging our opinions on superheroes. We found that we had a lot in common, so I invited him to write an article about superheroes for the Daily Bugle."
"What I didn't expect was that he also set his sights on Spider-Man. He wrote a follow-up to 'Hooch Reveals Spider-Man's Dirty Secrets' and brought it to my office, hoping I would put it on the front page of the Daily Bugle."
"The first installment focused on how Spider-Man disrupted the existing law enforcement order, caused trouble for the police, and frightened the public. I thought it was quite a good angle. The two of us polished the article together and published it in the Daily Bugle."
George nodded in agreement, then said, "Spider-Man has done plenty of that sort of thing. Sometimes