Pablo Torre

And I personally am in favor of just disclosing bias transparently while being respectful of the work that the other people in any given work room, work setting are trying to do to the concern of time that David is pointing out.

But at the same time, all that journalists really have is the vocabulary of being called a journalist.

The question of who gets to define that term, who gets to claim that term, what does it really mean?

What it should be defined as briefly, in my view, is somebody who is tortured by an attempt to get the story right, meaning you're trying to get to the truth, even if the thing you're covering does not want you to find out about it.

And that means that your real interest that you're serving is not the fandom or the team or yourself, but the public interest.

Really what it means is a degree of difficulty you've imposed upon yourself.

And so all you got to show for it, John, all you have to show for it at the end is the ability to say, I'm one of those people.

And so the existentialism of losing that term on top of the actual injury to that insult, right, of no one's funding this anymore, no one appreciates it, no one understands it, it did become a proxy fight.

for the larger concept of what does it mean to be a free press, which is unfortunate because this lady seems completely loveless.

It's just, I think, relevant to the conversation to point out that lots of people do different jobs.

There should be a Bill Simmons.

There should be a Lynn Jones.

There should be a David Aldridge.

There should be a Pablo Torre, hopefully.

And the question that I want any consumer to ask is, what is the thing they're telling you they're doing and are they living up to it?

As opposed to applying like a blanket purity test, because...

Frankly, I don't expect anybody else to do what I do.

And it's better for me that they don't even try at this point.

I like the little niche that I'm in.

What I don't like is that I decided to not weigh in on this and have been tricked effectively by a show that I host into talking about it and getting aggregated for reasons that I will almost immediately regret.