There is a meme floating around social media that accurately describes most of my personal and professional faux pas.

It reads, "Society: Be Yourself. Society: No. Not like that."

Most journalists are born with personality traits that translate into good reporting skills, like the ability to disregard social etiquette in order to ask sources tough and straightforward questions. It's rare we also possess natural social graces.

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