Interesting Convo here...

Helps you to understand why print media -- where you don't see the faces and don't care if the interviewer is a pretty woman, a lesbian, a man or AI really -- is superior in reporting the facts of a story.  

The story should always stand alone, and be the focus.  Not the person writing about a subject.  I get it, you have to sell your lifestyle (family, upbringing, kids or not, hobbies, etc.) to build your brand to survive in an indentity-politicked journalist career, but the reader is not served well learning about you, not the news today.  (save those personal stories for your personal family newsletter, maybe?))

(After an interview, the headline shouln't be:  Jill Jones (with no explanation of who she is) spoke with EzraKlein on the EzraKleinShow today! (click here)  or   Kara Swisher really nailed BigTechExec in her interview; boy, she pressed him w/hard questions (click here).

No, the focus should be:  what new came from those interviews?  What was the "meat" shared that is valuable for readers to learn?  (Great, you scored an interview. Another notch in your career highlights.)

If you can't sum up in a sentence or two, the breaking -- or big, heck even small -- news that came from your journalistic interviewing session, you didn't really add much to the discourse, other than to pat yourself on the bag, make yourself some money, and build up the brand.

Who is left to cover the news so that the public can be informed on what is happening behind the scenes on the serious subject matter?  Gossip is fun, but mocking the doer's gets old.  Building your brand off their work is not predatory so much, as parasitic. 

To get close, the parasites often have to be sycophantic... for a time.  Then they get angry later, when the host picks them off and denies them access, it seems.

Maybe the whole point was, to just do the reporting job. Not insert yourself, your family or your identity politics into the field?  We should return to those days so that American journalism will matter once more.

A lot of people getting richer while news coverage coming out of the Capitol and the business worlds is poorer by far.