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
lot of people running around who don't know their dick from their elbow, and it shows. I'm an old-school model - anti-authoritarian, big-mouthed, restless, agitating at the system - and I was trained up by the greats who were just like me. If I seem like a "maverick," it's the
fault of the people working to destroy journalism, which requires compliance, not my own. There used to be a lot more prickly assholes like me. That's why I celebrate good journalism and shit all over bad reporters all the time. Someone has to!
Not that I am the sole arbiter etc. etc., I just think it's important to point shit out and, well, set the record straight.
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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