Jour­na­lism—real jour­na­lism—is, above ever­y­thing else, allergic to bullshit. Bullshit is the mortal enemy of jour­na­lism. Real jour­na­lism aspires to be the opposite of bullshit. You can be a great jour­na­list without being at­trac­ti­ve, friendly, likeable, cha­ris­ma­tic, as long as you possess a de­ter­mi­na­ti­on to root out and expose bullshit wherever it is found. Indeed, many jour­na­lists are un­li­keable because they have this quality. The ideal leader of a hard-hitting in­ves­ti­ga­ti­ve jour­na­lism operation is someone who is smart, driven, and virtually un­em­ploya­ble in any other context due to their pa­tho­lo­gi­cal hatred of the corporate niceties used to obscure the lies of the rich and powerful.

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