Warning: Jim Acosta Is Hazardous to Honest Journalism
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It’s a fundamental, common sense rule of journalism: Hard news reporters don’t cover their friends. It’s just too difficult to be loyal to the truth when the truth makes a friend look like a jerk, or a crook. The same rule holds for commentators. Can they really give thoughtful, unfiltered opinions about a friend who, to use one easy example, is President of the United States? No, they can’t.
Warning: Jim Acosta Is Hazardous to Honest Journalism
Warning: Jim Acosta Is Hazardous to Honest…
Warning: Jim Acosta Is Hazardous to Honest Journalism
It’s a fundamental, common sense rule of journalism: Hard news reporters don’t cover their friends. It’s just too difficult to be loyal to the truth when the truth makes a friend look like a jerk, or a crook. The same rule holds for commentators. Can they really give thoughtful, unfiltered opinions about a friend who, to use one easy example, is President of the United States? No, they can’t.