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For those in uniform, the question will be what wins out: careerism or institutional loyalty and integrity?

Wolf, as Diane Fisher, an early staffer, recalls, “was a big believer in amateurism rather than careerism.”

Unfortunately, the mainstream media, for a variety of reasons including intellectual laziness and careerism, is clinging desperately onto those fictions of folk democracy even when the evidence is abundant and obvious to the contrary.

Beyond moral cowardice, careerism, "bothsideism", "centrism", and financial concerns, many people in the mainstream news media and Fourth Estate are uncomfortable with big ideas about society and politics.

But as an institution, the American news media continues to be driven by profits, access and careerism.