Journalists in the Trump era

From WBUR:

But when someone guns down your peers in cold blood and the far right cheers, something inside you breaks. You realize that the stories you sought to amplify as a journalist — stories that question unchecked power, from the streets all the way to the White House — are stories that a lot of people in America not only don’t want to hear, but want to kill. And when the president of the United States encourages his followers to antagonize journalists by painting targets on our backs, you start to wonder how much longer you can keep doing this.

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Journalism is an honorable profession that is not the villain of the American people, as Trump maintains. I've done a bit, mostly freelance features, not investigative. You don't get rich. You can get considerable satisfaction. Once you knew you were important to the culture, and you still are, despite recent challenges, as the hate-monger poisons minds.