Robin Abcarian: Northwestern's student journalists apologized for doing their job. They shouldn't have

The dog pile was fast and it was intense.

After Northwestern University's student newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, apologized Sunday for the way it covered a student protest against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, professional journalists weighed in, and most did not like what they were reading. What kind of journalists would apologize for simply doing their jobs?

The paper had done a thorough job of reporting Sessions' controversial Nov. 5 appearance; it should have been proud of the work. A reporter had been in the hall, covering the speech, and reporters and a photographer were outside, covering two separate protests. One of the protests got heated when