Trust Issues
The Messy Fourth Estate
I want to believe in journalism. But my faith is waning.
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21 min readJun 20, 2018
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For the second time in a week, my phone buzzed with a New York Times alert, notifying me that another celebrity had died by suicide. My heart sank. I tuned into the Crisis Text Line Slack channel to see how many people were waiting for a counselor’s help. Volunteer crisis counselors…