If My Article Matters, Why Don’t I Defend It?

Sam Young
14 min readAug 19, 2020

A recent article I wrote about Black Lives Matter blew up way more than I ever would have imagined. It was the first article I ever wrote for this website, and certainly the first time my ideas have ever reached this wide of an audience. I will openly admit that there are certain things I could have done a better job on, but considering the large positive response the article received, I think there are clearly…

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Sam Young

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.