CNN’s Clarissa Ward is an American journalist who regularly faces danger. Ward is at risk because she knocks on the Moscow apartment doors of officers of Russia’s FSB, the main internal security arm of President Vladimir Putin’s tyranny, to ask them about their attempted assassinations of political enemies. Ward is at risk because she meets and talks to terrorists for insightful interviews. She is at risk because she reports from war zones such as Darfur, in Sudan, where she was held prisoner this month.

In contrast, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the race-baiting TV presenter on MSNBC, is not at risk. Sitting in New York City studios in a sharp suit and criticizing former President Donald Trump is not dangerous.