Becoming a newspaper reporter in the midst of fake news media
Sideways glances and no comment. ‘There’s no story here’ because there’s no scandal. Being told over and over ‘we have nothing to hide’ as if my only job is to unearth dirty laundry.
It is my job to pull skeletons from the closet, yes, but that is not my goal. My goal is solely truth – unbiased, unopinated, undeniable truth. I do not write things as fact if I do not know them to be.
I will not attri…
