#virtually 100% of the coverage of dbeibah/alkabir/ CBL thing has been genuinely humiliating for journalists and they dont even KNOW

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Every time you read an article from da gray lady or her circle, you should entertain the possibility in a sidestream thought: What if everything this writer said was false? Intentionally false—or incidentally, accidentally false? The accused innocent and now wrongly persecuted and life-ruined, and the crime justified, or falsified, or sensationalized? Even and especially do this when the article’s themes fit your priors. This alternate reality you furnish yourself is probably like, by virtue of being the inversion of the acceptable journalistic line, or of being more thought-through, however inexpertly and uninformedly, than an article on FP slammed together to meet a deadline, 75% truer than whatever the article says and most importantly it develops your capacity to like to borrow a term from chewy instagram infographicworld “hold space” for the “characters,” that is, real people, not in fact so easily reducible to graft-sucking stage machiavel or like brave human rights crusader, the real people about whom the articles are written. Imagine if a 28-year-old with a J-school masters degree and no subject-area-expertise self-confidently condemned you on the world stage and manufactured a legitimation by paralogy by which every “well-read” “good person” would feel totally confident condemning you, too