People tend to have misconceptions about what is involved in being a journalist. We have this notion that journalists are the tenacious tellers of truths, speaking truth to power. Lois Lane. Their job is to take to their newspapers and tell people what all the bad guys have been doing, and how they know.

That’s the impression we typically get from the fiction we consume – journalism is about individuals, the personalities who dig deep, right wrongs, then tell you all about it. But it’s not really how journalism works. It’s not even how it works when it’s working the way it should, because journalism isn’t really meant to be about the voice and personality of the journalist, it’s meant to be about the unvarnished truth.