Channel 7 general manager now former Channel 7 general manager: Randi Goldklank resigned and agreed to a plea deal in East Boston District Court that will keep her out of jail if she stays away from booze and drugs for a year. She also apologized to state troopers for her behavior at Logan, which included threatening one trooper's job after she was hauled off a plane - and will pay restitution to the trooper whose glasses she broke during the fray.

Last fall, Globe reporter Johnny Diaz profiled Channel 7's new general manager, Randi Goldklank. Now he discusses his discomfort with the way the media is ripping into one of its own:

... My discomfort with the coverage stems from having known Randi in the last year through my TV articles, which led me to write one on her. The person described in the police report doesn't mirror the enthusiastic and sprightly woman I have dealt with for a year. What is not being presented in this week's coverage is that she lives and breathes the news business. It pulses in her blood. She's aggressive but only because she likes to win and she brings an infectious energy (even when I spent time with her at her gym at 5 a.m. for my profile last Sept.) She brings that outlook to work each day to motivate her staff. I wish I had seen more of that in the coverage but all we had to go by was detailed in the police reports and my previous profile on her - something the other media didn't have. ...

OK, maybe I'm not cut out to write headlines for Channel 7. Still, will be interesting to see how they play the case of their general manager, whom the Herald reports was arrested at Logan for "unruly behavior." She says a male passenger on her inbound flight tried to fondle her and that she got upset when the flight attendant told her to "calm down." One thing led to another and State Police wound up cuffing her on the ground.

The Globe paints a slightly different picture, one involving an out-of-control angry drunk threatening a trooper's job.