[specialist]

What of the publishers, producers, and editors? Do they lack agency in the face of journalistic perfidy?

What of public relations, think tanks, and campaigns? Those legions of people paid to push a point of view?

It's amusing (tragicomically) that your sole criticism is for the people with least power in a corrupt media ecosystem.

[unishark]

whataboutism?

The article is about a journalist so we're thinking about how other journalists compare.

[specialist]

Then the correct criticism of journalists is that they don't uphold their integrity in the face of the outrage tsunami. Or, more accurately, most who did are no longer employed as journalists.

[unishark]

> the outrage tsunami

I originally read this as "orange tsunami". Which changes the point slightly.