maybe it’s a bad trait for a journalist to believe in nothing

I am pretty sure most journalists acted unethically like this for decades..hence the collective MeToo panic( Nuzzi was critical of MeToo and sympathetic to the men accused..)

That depends on the nothing in which you are not believing. Some nothings can destroy you as a person.

say what you will about the tenets of yellow journalism, dude, at least it’s an ethos

I have always said "oh yeah, right," whenever journalists told me they were politically neutral. They were almost always libertarians in theory and in practice.

we should expect even amoral cynics to have better romantic taste though, one feels

She was always so suspect. She's such a Vogel. Yes, I'm using Ken Vogel as a pejorative.

Or believe in Nuzzi-ing