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“Every good reporter starts out at a local paper. Then you build your way up until they trust you with the big stuff.”
This is what I was told upon disclosing my qualms regarding the job. All I can hear in my mind is “careerist… careerist… careerist...” and who is meant to be trusting me, with what precisely?
It’s to avoid misinformation, I suppose. Sigh, but what if the official info is also mis-...
All we do is write down stuff the authorities tell us we can, with some wriggle space when it comes to regular folks in court and maybe kids. There is no diving deep into the system as a journalist unless you really try, and that is when shit goes down – see Assange.
At least, I think it is. I suppose that’s why I’m doing this, to see precisely to what extent the system is corrupt and phony, and to what extent my dad and Chomsky and Jimmy Dore have been correct all along.
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