I have no idea what I’m doing. I haven’t in nearly a year and a half, when I left BuzzFeed News, and then I left New York. Now, after this past month, I don’t have much faith remaining in the industry that, for the entirety of my twenties, shaped nearly every facet of my life.
“I have never felt such a profound disconnect between what I’ve seen reported on the Times, NPR, CNN and the BBC and the pure horrors on the ground, which have been extensively documented and disseminated through social media” -- this is exactly it, and the disconnect is even more disorienting when you’re supposed to be inside this media bubble, wondering what you can do to change the tune.
“I have never felt such a profound disconnect between what I’ve seen reported on the Times, NPR, CNN and the BBC and the pure horrors on the ground, which have been extensively documented and disseminated through social media” -- this is exactly it, and the disconnect is even more disorienting when you’re supposed to be inside this media bubble, wondering what you can do to change the tune.