Journalism is a storytelling business that is optimized for psychological impact, no more and no less honorable than writing a children's book or a screenplay.

Journalism is a storytelling business that is optimized for psychological impact, no more and no less honorable than writing a children's book or a screenplay. Scientists are after fact. Philosophers are after truth. The commentariat are after repeat customers. This isn't a dig on journalists or meteorologists btw, but let's drop the heroic pretense. Even Edward Murrow shoveled mostly slop.