While I thought part of the solution would be to cite the individual journalists who made these claims against him, but having written professionally, often eve

While I thought part of the solution would be to cite the individual journalists who made these claims against him, but having written professionally, often even the writers do not have copy approval on their stories before publication. There are some terrible people writing these days, but a relatively anonymous editor slipping in something awful, ideological, or vicious under someones byline is quite common. If you don't play ball, you don't work again. The way Heintz is described, I've encountered similar personalities among people we might describe as super high IQ (a kind of narrow dimension intelligence) where it's like you're a millionaire in a currency almost nobody accepts, and the meta-problem of how to apply and deploy that wealth leads to recklessness, paranoia, and seeking out self destruction. This was a sad story about a clear trajectory of decline, but one facilitated and enabled by journalists.