“Democracy only works if people have faith in our basic institutions, including the press,” says Peter Loge, the Director of Project on Ethics in Political Communication at The George Washington University. “Those who work in politics have an ethical obligation to strengthen, or at the very least not undermine, trust in democratic institutions. Ms. Pushaw's suggestion that readers go after a reporter because the governor disagreed with a story makes a journalist, someone doing the basic job of democracy, an enemy.”