Journalism done right has always been a little bit subversive.

It can create considerable tension between journalists and the companies that employ them.

Let’s talk about longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharon Alfonsi, and several of her colleagues. CBS’s new owners fired Alfonsi recently, with published reports citing unnamed company bosses explaining she had been “insubordinate.”

In 2024, a sheriff’s deputy working for the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department was forced out for being lousy at his job. Even though the deputy, Cristian Morales, was flagged in the state’s negative separation database, he ended up being hired a few months later by the Menasha Police Department.

Working Americans don’t want handouts, they just want a system that isn’t rigged for and by those at the very top. They want health care they can afford when they need it.