But I've run into more than one conversation, both here and in private PMs/emails, where I'm realizing people don't watch or read the news beyond what I'm linking to, which creates a news-hunting and vetting obligation, I simply can't dedicate myself to in a primary way, both because of Hours in the Day and because I am a former investigative reporter, and there's a reason I'm not anymore.
That's because I worked at a wire service in a room broadcasting unexpurgated news feeds (which means the body parts at airplane crash sites and graphic execution footage from repressive regimes). The results of this is that I have a lot of dark humour and a deep, fundamental loyalty to journalists who do the hard, ugly stuff people hate them for. It is a perspective that is largely, rightly, unwelcome; but it is also a perspective I'm entitled to. And we're all better off if those things don't need to come into play here.
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But I've run into more than one conversation, both here and in private PMs/emails, where I'm realizing people don't watch or read the news beyond what I'm linking to, which creates a news-hunting and vetting obligation, I simply can't dedicate myself to in a primary way, both because of Hours in the Day and because I am a former investigative reporter, and there's a reason I'm not anymore.
That's because I worked at a wire service in a room broadcasting unexpurgated news feeds (which means the body parts at airplane crash sites and graphic execution footage from repressive regimes). The results of this is that I have a lot of dark humour and a deep, fundamental loyalty to journalists who do the hard, ugly stuff people hate them for. It is a perspective that is largely, rightly, unwelcome; but it is also a perspective I'm entitled to. And we're all better off if those things don't need to come into play here.