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Journalism Stepped Up in the Ukraine Tragedy

As the world becomes more complex, connect-the-dots journalism becomes something of a holy grail: both a public service, and a product people want

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Dan Perry
Nov 20, 2022
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We tend to agree that journalists must cover what’s important. We ignore that importance is subjective and that news is basically a business, and we hope for a reasonable outcome. The Ukraine war has tested this brittle journalistic paradigm, and the results have been… reasonable.

The news media arrived at the war in a …

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