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58. She is principled and honest, but is she a...

Mon Jan 13, 2025, 10:35 PM

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.... journalist? Maybe, for some definition of "journalist", but she doesn't do any original news reporting, as far as I can tell. To me she is a pundit, which is often a pejorative, although I don't take it that way.

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