Ashley Parker, a journalist in DC, posted the comment I’ve screenshotted below on social media. Read her post carefully and remember that the person who wrote it is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a veteran reporter of the New York Times and the Washington Post, has won a Pulitzer Prize, and is now a writer at The Atlantic and an analyst at MSNBC. Parker has hit all the familiar markers of status and success in an industry where is not so easy to succeed or acquire status. She’s obviously smart and skilled. She’s not a conservative. She’s more of a vacant lot, a person whose profession is devoted to words yet pays little attention to her own, […]