re: #6 🌹UOJB!
The opinion editor is still trying to defend it:
We’ve spent four years chronicling those harms. I don’t think the letters writers see themselves as zoo animals. I may disagree with them but want to understand them…so it doesn’t happen again.
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) November 14, 2020
“It’s important to hear and develop an understanding of psychopaths,” and, “It’s important to publish the rantings of psychopaths,” are demonstrably different things. A journalist’s job is to distill the takeaway, not furnish the soapbox in the guise of “fairness”.
— Rubin Safaya (@rubinsafaya) November 14, 2020