WIRED’s Gushing Pete Buttigieg Profile Is an Embarrassment to Journalism

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WIRED’s Gushing Pete Buttigieg Profile Is an Embarrassment to Journalism

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Politics@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

Is journalism’s job to afflict the comfortable? Or is it to kiss the ass of the powerful with hosannas to how smart, talented, and charming they are? In the case of WIRED’s recent profile of Pete Buttigieg, it’s clearly the latter.

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