By now, it has become the most depressing of journalistic mainstays: The Southern Poverty Law Center releases its absurd annual "hate" report, and 60,000 third-rate MSM journalists dutifully and uncritically regurgitate the entire contents in the form of what was once known as a "news article".No context, no nuance, no questioning, no attempt to speak to anyone but Mark Potok or Heidi Beirich... you could almost set your watch to it.

Those who trained me in the ways of journalism had nothing but contempt for press release rewrites.

Can someone ask Christian Alexandersen, the author of this piece, who trained him?