<
https://medium.com/we-are-hearken/a-serious-problem-the-news-industry-does-not-talk-about-346caaa6d1cd>
"The culture of journalism breeds disdain for the people we’re meant to be
serving, i.e., the audience."
Interesting article.
"A helpful view I keep returning to is from this epidemiologist Gary Slutkin
who works to prevent gun violence through treating it like a disease. He says
when people feel anger, it’s actually a secondary form of sadness. The primary
emotion is sadness, but it presents as anger. I can’t help but think that if
you unpack the anger news folks can have toward their audience, you’d uncover
sadness. It’s sadness that the public doesn’t understand or respect how much
work and consideration goes into good reporting, sadness that they can’t always
do their best work with ferocious daily demands, sadness that someone who
they’re ultimately trying to help and serve thinks they are terrible at their
jobs, or a terrible person. Regardless if you’re a journalist in the state of
sadness or anger, changing the relationship with a person or a group you see as
adversarial takes a great deal of perspective."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
