re: #29 jaunte

She doesn’t do straight reporting.

She’s an access journalist whose entire premise is that she’ll report what X says about Y, so long as she continues to get access. She therefore gets used by X to further X’s agenda, and that has nothing to do with reporting, journalism, or facts.

To report the news means when X says something, and you know it is untrue, a lie - you say as much.

But that’s the rub. If she calls out X for the lie, she loses access.

So she continues to act as though this is all normal and people defend her writing as something we should accept, when nothing about this situation is acceptable.