So messed up from the flu today that I stared unbelievingly at my blog entry for yesterday; couldn’t even remember writing it up.
Yesterday – I think – saw the election of a president and a foreign affairs representative for the European Union. I’ve been trolling the internet ever since reading news articles and opinion pieces about it. It’s impressive how bad it has all been.
Journalists work under great pressure; they have to come up with five-hundred or a thousand words every day on the topic that they’re assigned. I have never been a real journalist; even during my studies my only real journalistic job was a three-month internship at a local newspaper. And I hated (almost) every second of it.
As a journalist you get handed the smallest of tidbits to fashion a story around and you have to do it again and again. Actual fact-finding and fact-checking is discouraged because there’s no money for it.
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