Dan Shelley

[Commentary] I was struck this week by two inside-baseball journalism stories following Oct 30’s Mueller investigation bombshells that spoke, tangentially but notably, to what I have often said about a main obstacle in our industry’s ability to regain the trust of the public: The conflation in many information consumers’ minds between responsible journalism and the opinion media. I invoke the spirit of Walter Cronkite to make some points that I believe are critical in our current time.