No journalistic adage deserves to be chiseled into a tablet quite as much as “Don’t become the story.” And no journalist deserves to have that tablet taped to her forehead as much as Olivia Nuzzi.

Increasingly, Nuzzi serves as a walking reminder not to make messiness your own personal brand. She may technically be a political writer, but it’s fair to assume that she’s destined to go down in history as the woman who got sacked for sexting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.