This is a great article, but I’ve come to believe that HN commenters are utterly incapable of appreciating how absolutely essential journalism is, and in fact how many great journalists there still are writing today. When I read the kind of things people here tend to say about “the media”, I can’t identify with it at all. Good journalists are the conscience of our nation, and have been been stepping up to the job admirably in recent years, when the nation has lost its ethical center.