As used to be said in every newsroom in America, a reporter's job is to know what isn't known.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
Yes, It Is
Yet the Times remains an extremely good newspaper, one I consult daily, though I have to find ways around the paywall. Every now and then, though, something happens that makes you realize how incredibly ignorant the newspaper’s staff is about basic religious facts. I can understand someone living in Pakistan, or Sichuan province, not getting that all of Christianity, in its many versions throughout the ages, rests on the resurrection of Jesus. I don’t understand how an educated American, whatever his beliefs, can not know that. Yet that story got through several layers of editing at the Times before making it into print. It’s staggering.
As used to be said in every newsroom in America, a reporter's job is to know what isn't known.
As used to be said in every newsroom in America, a reporter's job is to know what isn't known.