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What Journalism Isn’t

What Journalism Isn’t

"Journalism isn’t easy, but it’s damn important, and more people in the news industry need to start doing it before they wake up one day and realize that journalism has become illegal."

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Journalism isn’t the mere act of turning on the microphones and letting politicians talk.

Journalism isn’t inviting proven liars to come on your TV show and lie to your audience, and then thanking them for it.

Journalism isn’t a process for normalizing a madman.

Journalism isn’t blaming “politics” or “division” instead of blaming the people who play polit…

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Mark Jacob
Mark Jacob is the former metro editor of the Chicago Tribune and former Sunday editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the co-author of eight books on history and photography. Twitter: @markjacob16 Threads: markjacobnews
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