ThinkProgress’ Ben Armbruster gets Nadia Bilbassy, the White House correspondent for Dubai-based satellite TV news-org MBC, to call out the ignorance and arrogance of the White House press corps.

No one likes to be called ignorant. But it’s worse for Bilbassy, who knows more (I presume) about the region she’s from than some on-camera dude who has to cover a million issues superficially, to be constantly upstaged by the ignorant than for the ignorant to be called ignorant. And imagine what she has to endure hearing that ignorance reflecting on news organizations that contribute to a global agenda.

There’s a cultural bias in the media against admitting you don’t know something, and it’s the enemy of journalism. I remember when I was on my school paper and was discussing with some of the incoming reporters the way we rolled at the Daily Targum. Fronting like a hard-nosed reporter, I said it was important that we never answer a question by saying "I don’t know." The other young journo conducting the training, my friend-for-life Sally Goldenberg, thought for a second and corrected me. Actually, she said, we should embrace the fact we don’t know something, admit it candidly, and then work to address that ignorance. We shouldn’t front like it doesn’t exist. She was absolutely right, and now she’s the City Hall correspondent for the New York Post, where she lives that creed. The WH press corps could learn from her, as I did.