jussie smollett seems like an imbalanced character. what about all the figures that carried his water and never really apologized? i m not saying they should be fired or anything, but shouldn t someone admit, we went along with the hoax? and maybe they could hold back a little bit on social media in particular. i think that especially in the smollett case more than their reporting. that was where too many journalists, writers, pundits blurred the line between objective reporting and sort of advocacy. that s where you see the media in the activist corner. obviously the things they re tweeting aren t being approved by editors. they re not as cautious and calculating as their stories. i think social media has maybe allowed too many a journalist let the map flip and reveal they have these deep seeded biases that often go unchallenged and has contributed to a loss of