Dear (Former) Fellow Denizens of the Fourth Estate . . .

I see some of you wringing your hands on social media about Michelle Wolf’s performance at the dinner last night and the reaction of the right (typically – embracing victimization) and how that damages your “objectivity.” Please stop, now and always. Yes, you want to avoid bias, but your job is accuracy in pursuit of truth, and you are allowed – in fact, required, to my way of thinking – to exercise judgment. You will nevereverevereverever placate the right on “objectivity.” Their media-bashing has nothing, zero, zip, zilch, nada to do with “fairness,” “balance,” or “objectivity.” Their purpose is to crush you. Their goal is for all public information to be under their ideological thumb. Do not let this happen.

Later,

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