Strip the away the best writers and suddenly The #FREEP / #NYT / #WAPO are just launching pads not destinations. How does this affect #WDET and other local Journalists?
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1 of 3: If you’re curious about what I’ve been doing since I retired from the @freep at the end of 2019, here’s a partial answer. The first copies of my new book have just arrived.
#CuomoForCovidCzar Trump wants to slow Covid-19 Testing / his enablers are doing it. We need #AndrewCuomo to appoint himself Covid-19 Czar and to Coordinate the States Testing, Response and Supply Lines. He can Bash Trump When Needed. https://t.co/A5j32JxuBT
Two nurses, who have witnessed first hand the toll Covid is taking in Colorado, stood up and peacefully counter protested. Here is how they were treated. I had join them.
In 2018, Trump fired the US pandemic response team and never replaced them
In 2020, with a pandemic killing thousands every day, Trump has cut funding to the World Health Organization
I think the assumption that journalists write controversial content for clicks is mostly wrong. I think they largely do it to assert influence on the narrative that makes up shared mainstream/tribe reality, something that neither blasé nor universally-derided work accomplishes
Finding I’m generally happier during quarantine, especially on weekends.
No debate about how to spend the day.
No FOMO going to bed at 9 on a Friday.
Forced to cook at home, hang with family, and go on walks.
Longer flow states and less background noise anxiety...