A Crucial Realization About Journalism is Learned by Being its Subject

In the early 1990s, my fatherhad an outlook-altering experience. A life-long South Florida accountant for individuals and small businesses, he had no involvement in politics and harbored a basic patriotic trust for American institutions, including its media — the type of uncritical faithwe’re taught to have and easily adopt if we’re not paying close attention. But then one of his accounting clients, a manager of a Native American casino, ended up in a public business dispute with the tribe th...