Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo’s Excellent El Chapo Adventure Isn’t Journalism

This whole venture is dodgy ethical territory and it does not make Rolling Stone look good

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I’m calling out Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo‘s El Chapo adventure, which apparently led to the drug lord’s recapture by Mexican authorities and a splashy “get” for a beleaguered Rolling Stone magazine.

Call it extreme travel.

Call it Sean and Kate’s Excellent Adventure.

But don’t call it journalism.

The story is stunning when you first learn of it. An Academy Award-winning actor with a hyperactive moral compass and an itchy passport ventured into the Mexican jungle with his actress friend to meet with the most notorious drug lord in the world, Joaquรญn Guzmรกn Loera.

Um, wow.

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