The man had sworn an oath. It didn’t matter that it was dangerous. Or that it was unpopular. He was going to keep it. Sometimes doing your job requires extraordinary measures. Other times it’s very ordinary—but it’s always heroic. We should learn to recognize equally not only the journalist willing to go to jail to protect their source, but also the journalist doing their day-to-day job, insisting on objectivity and fairness, resisting the temptations of clickbait, speaking truth to power.
