Yes, I am a journalist

The job of the American press isn't really to cover what people want to see, though sometimes it pleasantly works out that way. It is their job to ensure that public officials are being held accountable, and let's face it, Trump needs an army to make sure of that (something he still hasn't learned even almost a year into his presidency).

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The fine line

The fine line

Everyone's probably heard that there's a fine line that journalists walk between doing their jobs and getting too involved in their stories.

Everyone's probably heard that journalists have to "have hard shells," that "we just move from story to story" and "that we don't really care, we're just focused on making deadlines."

And that's partially true. Good journalists, in my opinion, need to try to be as empathetic as they possibly can, but there comes a point when we have a job to do.

We have to write.

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