Reporters are a gift to a writer in a hurry: they have a ready excuse to stick their nose into whatever’s going on, to upset or threaten protagonists, or to dig up some old secret from the past. So it’s no surprise we pop up everywhere from the Bourne series to soap operas to House of Cards.
House of Cards has no fewer than four journalists as fairly major characters. The problem is, likeable as some of them may be, they’re all awful at their jobs. Seriously, they suck. Here’s the charge sheet against the House of Cards reporting series in turn.
