I make lot of jokes about reporters. We shouldn't be humorless or smug about our jobs. But journalists are under threat--and worse--all over the world. The old creed of Chicago journalism that we afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. This is what we do.
Scott Simon has spent his career afflicting the afflicted and comforting the powerful. there is no war or atrocity of US empire has not directly or indirectly promoted. millions are starved to death in Yemen, what matters to him is his jihadist colleague