“Through Nuzzi’s interview and book excerpt, we—fellow members of the press, and readers more broadly—are to understand that her journalistic malpractice was excusable because it was underpinned by genuine emotion. From Nuzzi’s telling, she was the victim of her emotions, and not of the way she behaved as a result of them.”
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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