Journalism's Big Problem with Prevalence

overstating and understating is a chronic illness

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The art of classical reporting is amazing. As a reader, I define it as relentlessly unpacking all sides of a story, pushing past everyone’s initial B.S. like a criminal investigator, and delivering medium-to-long form stories like we still find occasionally in Esquire, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and emerging dig…