All Hail the Non-TV Newsmen: Hiring Interesting People

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Douthat’s 60 Minutes Trump interview shows why thoughtful persistence beats televised confrontation.

In the universe of “people who got it wrong,” the doubters who protested CBS News’s hiring of Ross Douthat rank right up there with the MAGA influencers who insisted, even late into the evening of November 3, that the Democrats were not on track to have an exceptionally good election cycle.

Some people are just professionally wrong.

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Becket Adams

Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.

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Douthat’s 60 Minutes Trump interview shows why thoughtful persistence beats televised confrontation.
Journalistic substance matters more than polished performance or broadcast credentials.

In the universe of “people who got it wrong,” the doubters who protested CBS News’s hiring of Ross Douthat rank right up there with the MAGA influencers who insisted, even late into the evening of November 3, that the Democrats were not on track to have an exceptionally good election cycle.

Some people are just professionally wrong.