Friday, September 24, 2004
Now, even as a trainee journalist, from the way most people react when you ask them to grant interviews or contribute opinions, it's as if I suggested extracting all their teeth via their rectum or something. Why does it have to be so painful? And it's terribly depressing when people you know, however slightly, start treating you as if you have HIV that is contractable simply by talking to you.
Nobody ever trusts journalists. We study stereotypes in our own courses, and maybe it's some stupid subliminal way of educating us on how the world sees reporters and media ppl - as ruthless story-hungry unethical gossip mongers. And the worst thing about it is... I'm starting to get the feeling that the real world turns that stereotype into something closer to the truth than I am comfortable with.
What happens to those lofty ideals like "the people's right to know" and "watchdog of the government"? The nice theoretical crap we do in stupid level 1 modules?
I'm having a quarter-life crisis. Ignore me.
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