Warts and All

“The job of vigorous, independent journalism is to hold up a mirror so that we can look at ourselves and learn, painful as it may be, whether our actions as a nation square with our aspirations as a people.”

—Clark Hoyt, former Washington editor, Knight Ridder, 2006.

• Editorial Comment: Maybe some wart-removal cream?

 

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