David Corn's Golden Journalism Credo

Refined over the years to: Look where other reporters aren’t and avoid groupthink.

TheNation150thAnniversaryCoverFor The Nation‘s 150th Anniversary Issue, David Corn has taken a pungent stroll down memory lane, back to 1987 and the congressional investigation into the Iran-Contra scandal.

The picture painted by Corn, who had swooped into D.C. at the beginning of that year, is half-recognizable. There was no Internet, but then as now, many reporters were lazy.

Corn’s Washington correspondent predecessor, I.F. Stone, had counseled him to: “Stay to the end of any congressional hearing you attend and read everything.”

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