How damaging enough to

enough to resign your job?

Those are some of the questions for this week's reliable sources podcast. Let's cue the music.

I'm Brian Stelter and this is our weekly podcast edition of Reliable.

Our chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers.

And this week I am joined by someone who's been in the news

for a courageous choice they made.

Wisconsin journalist Daniel Thompson believed there was a headline in his newspaper in the

Kenosha News that was so dangerous, so distorted, that he decided to resign from his post as an editor there.

You may have read about his choice, but you probably haven't heard from him in his own words.

So let's change that right now. Let me bring him in.

Daniel, thanks for coming on with me.

Thank you for having me.

I wonder if you could tell us the story as you see it.

You know, I mentioned this is in the newspaper,

but this is really an online article, right?

It was on the website of the Kenosha News.

It was an article about a peaceful rally in support of Jacob Blake.

Why don't you tell us the story from there?

So just to give the backstory, that day I was on vacation, that whole week I was on vacation from

Kenosha News, but I had been covering protests for

months since they first came to Kenosha after the death at George Floyd so

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