This was admittedly a lot easier before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 and declared the media “the enemy of the people.” I always believed in the public service component of journalism. We are quite literally working for the people. I remember one of my college media advisers had a bumper sticker that said “Have you read the news today? Thank a journalist.” Like any industry, there are bad apples, but the vast majority of journalists work hard, for little pay, and in dangerous and stressful settings to bring the news to your fingertips. Our work is on public display, and our
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