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Is he not performing the functions of a journalist? And if so, should we not encourage and admire someone's impulse to buck the system (without being destructive or unreasonable)? Why side with Goliath?


We should encourage reporting of the accurate truth, yes. We should discourage link-bait, and over-hype, and sensationalism.

Even RWW should have done a better job looking into what happened, instead of just finding an anti-FB story of the day to post.


That wouldn't comport with RW's editorial policies, though.


One of the primary responsibilities of a journalist is to avoid editorializing.


Yeah, that is the editor's job.




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