The truth about journalism is that it’s just entertainment. It’s just a business. I’ve been doing it — largely reluctantly — for almost 30 years now. Since I was in junior high. Today I start doing journalism before I even get out of bed in the morning. I’m pitching article ideas to my editor most mornings as I’m waking up.

This isn’t really a glamorous profession or anything like it’s romanticized as. It’s working class work that is largely ignored when it’s not being maligned. We’re like janitors and car mechanics except I have to know how to emotionally manipulate you to click with a headline.

I think today’s piece turned out well. My editor gave it a good edit: algemeiner.com/2026/02/…