One of the wildest and most delicate and beautiful places on the planet. This is the land I come from and the community that I claim as my own. We don't want a wall. We never did.
Many thanks, as ever, to the wonderful @canislatrans for being my KCET editor at the time and allowing me to write about topics such as these
By the way, I'm not just offering up the royal "we." Those of us closer to the reality of the U.S.-Mexico border deeply, profoundly oppose anything that keeps us separated (from 2016) pbs.org/newshour/natio…
The only reason Americans believe otherwise is because of the forty-year propaganda campaign waged by lobbyists of the #TantonNetwork
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Hey, this is how I rolled at 27 too!! Check out this amazing thread for the reality of journalism and why institutional knowledge matters on every beat.
At 27, I was a radio reporter for KNX in Los Angeles covering breaking news, crime, the street beat. After that, I did the same thing for KPCC before finally moving back to San Diego and my beloved borderlands. It's why I have so many ~opinions~ about LAPD and LASD. I've lived it
This thread covers the importance of institutional knowledge, learning from the ground up, and understanding how journalists are manipulated and pressured. The layoffs and cutbacks of the last 30 years have created a deep cultural rift in American journalism, because there's a
Starting to look like a bunch of racist shitstains tried to do some sort of inauthentically coordinated activity all over the United States yesterday to try to terrorize the nation like they did all last year and failed like a wet fart registerguard.com/story/news/202… via @registerguard