Jun 09 2009
Journalism and Punishment
So apparently journalism is a powerful and unbelievably useful tool, subversive to those who value secrecy and championed for the causes of knowledge in the public.
About time.
Because of the fates of our friends Laura Ling and Euna Lee, I have drawn two very succinct conclusions;
1 - If a militant dictatorship-oriented family is hellbent on sentencing two American women to 12 years of hard labor for merely crossing a border, that must mean that Journalism is a field and practice which commands respect, and contains within the power to topple the corrupt and destroy the unjust.
2 - If #1 is true, then why don’t I, a journalism graduate and feverishly proficient writer, have a job?
I suppose that if one can look inside one’s self and answer when faced with the hypothetical situation of serving 12 years of hard labor for information transparency, it could, at the very least, be written in as an afterthought on a resume.
I’ve really outdone myself this time, haven’t I?
