Real journalists do not aspire to become the news; in fact they recoil at the prospect. You don’t go to J-school to learn PR.
But sometimes circumstances conspire against you, as was the case last Friday when Washington Blade White House reporter Chris Johnson was told to swap chairs with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at the daily COVID briefing.
He rightly refused the order from a White House official, who later threatened him with Secret Service enforcement of the order. (The Secret Service later