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Peska. Don Lemon was arrested and this morning on CNN, John Berman hosted a segment with an Axios journalist and Jackie Kucinich of the Boston Globe.

He asked this question.

When you see something like this happened, Jackie first to you, what's your reaction when you learn that Don and another journalist have been taken into custody?

Now Kucinich, the Washington Bureau Chief of the Globe, she failed the question well.

Nothing here in this commentary is meant to fault her.

But I would have underlined what a journalist is and does.

And I might have answered something like, John, it doesn't matter what I thought or what I felt.

It matters what I as a journalist can contribute to our knowledge while setting aside my own personal reaction.

And then I might have gone on to offer this bit of analysis.

Though Lemon is a journalist and though it is unacceptable to prosecute journalists for doing journalism,

what happened here maybe should not be best understood

as an assault on journalism, but another kind of assault. I will also note for the record that

Georgia Fort, who is the other independent journalist, that's how she's always described, was in

that church. And she is much more of an activist, even more than Don Lemon, who is definitely

an opinion journalist and tangles with Donald Trump.

But she, too, deserves protections.

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