Malcolm Gladwell
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But it is one that makes me a little uncomfortable.
Because I don't think that you can ultimately say that trust in institutions is reserved solely for institutions that perfectly match the characteristics of the general population.
It's like saying that we don't trust
kindergarten teachers because kindergarten teachers are overrepresented with people who have an enormous amount of patience for temper tantrums of four-year-olds.
I mean, they are an extraordinary and very specific subgroup of the population that performs very well in that particular task.
More generally, though, when we say of journalists that I don't think we should be judging the quality and trustworthiness of journalists by the
composition of that group or by their private ideological positions.
I believe that in a liberal society that we have to believe that the people who compose our professions can place their professional obligations above their personal ideological positions.
And if you don't believe we are capable of that act of transformation, then you can't have trust in any of the institutions that make up liberal society.
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