An immensely talented newspaper editor wrote this about retiring Sen. Dale Schultz (R–Richland Center).

More of this is needed in the news media — not (only) because of the writer, but because the news media needs more people who refuse to worship politicians and uncritically report what they say, whether the politician’s name is followed by a D or an R, or belongs to no party. Politicians are about themselves first and foremost, and that fact alone should make the media, and more importantly voters, critically appraise everything a politician says starting at “hello.”