As Truth Goes, So Goes the Nation

Jim Moore
7 min readJan 10, 2022

I have long subscribed to — and attempted to live up to — the idea that the goal of journalism is to lend comfort to those in need, and to make uncomfortable those comforted by greed.

Seven non-negotiables

As a journalist long past his prime, I continue to hold these non-negotiable tenets of what my profession’s aspirations were, and what they still may be:

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Jim Moore

Journalist, former Capitol Hill staff (House and Senate), former Cabinet speechwriter, editor, photojournalist and bird photographer. Top Writer Quora 2016–2017