It actually makes you a better journalist to have clear boundaries and a life.
Also, none of these corporations care about you. They do not. Don't let yourselves be exploited for some shareholder's dividends.
Empathy, an eye for detail, curiosity, open-mindedness, being able to spot discrepancies in data and communicate why they're significant, being able to render people's stories well because you actually listen—none of those skills improve because you are overworked and underpaid.
It's much harder to spot bullshit, to be discerning, and to challenge authority when your brain rarely/never recharges and you're worrying about how you're going to feed yourself or pay for childcare or a new set of brakes
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I keep thinking about the trajectory of my life had I been forced to give birth as an ill-equipped, unwilling and poor 21-year-old.
I most almost certainly would not be where I am now, but instead economically and professionally hobbled. Which is the whole point of these bills.
The lack of choice is not just about being stuck with an unwanted pregnancy (and it gets all the worse when that pregnancy is the result of rape or incest) but the way it shapes your whole damn life and very often keeps you tethered to an abuser.
So many abusers keep women from escaping by sabotaging their birth control.
A number of states mandate that a woman coparent with her rapist with their custody laws.
MDs love to immediately call for a social worker the moment you mention that the physical side effects of their antiquated-ass drugs have anything to do with your mental state.
Mind-body connection where?!?!
I swear, the moment you say "anxiety," it's like they hear "COOTIES."
The rigid compartmentalization of treatment reminds me of the notoriously siloed pre-9/11 IC
So much backwards about American medicine, like the (long previously unaddressed) residency bottleneck statnews.com/2021/06/25/new…
"Things have never looked so good. Or sounded so good. But at the same time, never has it been easier to borrow the signifiers and attributes of good art and commodify them to disguise deeply mediocre shit."
This is it. This is the thing.
I mean, it wasn't the central part of the furor surrounding American Dirt, but it was certainly part of it, that this airport novel was being signaled in so many ways as literary fiction