Like many longtime reporters, I have done my share of soul-searching as late. The explosion of landmines all across our field: devastating. The question that the country, the world, asks is legitimate: Is journalism, as we know it, becoming extinct?
On the one hand, what established news organizations once dismissed as partisan, unchecked rhetoric is now considered mainstream news. On the other, journalistic ethics vanish when established newsrooms grow so insular that they dismiss realities because they do not see them. We are at a tipping point.
If there has ever been a time that calls on experienced journalists to investigate stories tenaciously and intelligently, it is now. Smart, relentless reporting can and must impact our country, our culture: our very idea of citizenship.
Susan Gregory Thomas 