Good journalists always protect their sources. Not that JJJ is a good journalist, per say, but he knows what parts of his business need protected.
Ironically, in the comics, he learns Peter’s identity for a time, and begins acting like something of an ally, only to accidentally reveal Peter’s identity to the Goblin who had been suffering amnesia and forgotten who Spider-Man was.
Good journalists always protect their sources. Not that JJJ is a good journalist, per say, but he knows what parts of his business need protected.
Ironically, in the comics, he learns Peter’s identity for a time, and begins acting like something of an ally, only to accidentally reveal Peter’s identity to the Goblin who had been suffering amnesia and forgotten who Spider-Man was.
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