Wise to people who want to be journalists in our current ...

Wise to people who want to be journalists in our current age: (1) Don't expect backup from your peers. (2) rather, the reverse. (3) Falsehood comes faster than you can report it, let alone debunk it: Alexey Kovalev: A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media: "Congratulations, US media! You���ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear. We in Russia have been doing it for 12 years now���with a short hiatus when our leader wasn���t technically our leader���so quite a few things during Donald Trump���s press conference rang a bell. Not just mine, in fact���read this excellent round-up in The Moscow Times..."

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