The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant.

The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant.

As is the case with, I imagine, most people reading these words, I’ve dedicated most of my career to the idea of “journalism.” I still identify as a “journalist,” even if the actual days I spent navigating sources are so far away, I’ve almost forgotten how damn difficult the work is. I know plenty about the practice of journalism to conclude that it never belonged on a pedestal. Obviously, as in all fields, there are outliers in quality. There a…