Should News Describe the World, or Fix It?

Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2021 2:30 pm

Tom Rachman | Atlantic

The job of a news reporter today is to declare what you can’t yet know to people convinced that they already do.

Journalism on deadline has always been stressful. A gruff editor orders a reporter to simplify controversy, and submit the copy in a couple of hours...

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