Matthews: The ‘Capitol Gazette’ Reporters Weren’t Reporting ‘Fake News’

‘The ‘Capital Gazette’ newspaper reporters that were killed in the line of duty died doing what they committed their lives to — getting the news to their readers’

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MATTHEWS: "Let me finish tonight with a word about what happened yesterday in annapolis. The “Capital gazette” newspaper reporters that were killed in the line of duty died doing what they committed their lives to — getting the news to their readers. They weren’t reporting fake news. Deadline reporting isn’t grand or necessarily overly eloquent, it’s about getting the news into print accurately before anyone else does. The people who get careers getting stories on the front page are into news, breaking news, hard news, there’s a joy in that job beating the round-the-clock pressure, landing what you’ve come up with on the front page, breaking the story. I like how one of the surviving reporters from the “Gazette” put it on MSNBC earlier today. He said his colleagues that were shot were simply doing their bit."

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