An editor once bellowed at me that journalism doesn’t deal in metaphors and symbolism. I felt duly chastised but I’m not sure they were totally right.
Sure, the stories we tell aren’t generally allegories or parables – they’re about real things and real events (that’s kind of the point). But sometimes things are so loaded with obvious symbolism that it becomes impossible to resist. Think Donald Trump taking a literal wrecking ball to the White House.
