👍 If you are a journalist and you repeat someone's claims/assertions/denials uncritically, then you're not a journalist - you're someone's ...
If you are a journalist and you repeat someone's claims/assertions/denials uncritically, then you're not a journalist - you're someone's PR bitch.
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