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Isn't It Depressing???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maya Schenwar, Truthout)
Wed Sep 19 11:31:46 2012
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:31:45 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | When I tell people what I do for a living, the most common response is, "But isn't it depressing???" My response: "Of course!"
Grappling with the news every day is an emotional sky-dive with a rickety parachute. But for each of us on Truthout's staff, it's a jump we must take.
When Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig told me he wanted to cover the brutal "gas rush" that has brought a fracking epidemic upon Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania, it was because he felt compelled to do so: he grew up in Ohio, and - watching his childhood stomping grounds fill up with fracking rigs - he couldn't simply stand by. Truthout's lead investigative reporter Jason Leopold has described his decade-long pull to report on the horrors of Guantanamo: "There's something about the crimes committed by the Bush administration in our name that haunts me." And a couple of weeks ago, after watching a gaggle of corporate apologists squawking about the greed of public schoolteachers on a local Chicago news station, I couldn't help staying up half the night to hammer out a column in defense of the teachers' rights and those of their students.
Truthout's content relations editor, Leslie Thatcher, once put it this way: "While our task will never be completed, neither may we ever desist." We can't *not* do this work. It's not because we love to wallow in the murk of disaster and political frustration. It's because we believe ardently that a more equitable, more humane world is possible, and we must expose the murk in order to climb toward that brighter future.
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</center> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I tell people what I do for a living, the most common response is, "But isn't it <i>depressing???</i>" My response: "Of course!"<br />
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Grappling with the news every day is an emotional sky-dive with a rickety parachute. But for each of us on Truthout's staff, it's a jump we must take.<br />
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When Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig told me he wanted to cover the brutal "gas rush" that has brought a fracking epidemic upon Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania, it was because he felt compelled to do so: <b>he grew up in Ohio, and - watching his childhood stomping grounds fill up with fracking rigs - he couldn't simply stand by</b>. Truthout's lead investigative reporter Jason Leopold has described his decade-long pull to report on the horrors of Guantanamo: "There's something about the crimes committed by the Bush administration in our name that haunts me." And a couple of weeks ago, after watching a gaggle of corporate apologists squawking about the greed of public schoolteachers on a local Chicago news station, I couldn't help staying up half the night to hammer out a column in defense of the teachers' rights and those of their students.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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Truthout's content relations editor, Leslie Thatcher, once put it this way: "While our task will never be completed, neither may we ever desist." We can't <i>not</i> do this work. It's not because we love to wallow in the murk of disaster and political frustration. <b>It's because we believe ardently that a more equitable, more humane world is possible, and we must expose the murk in order to climb toward that brighter future.<br />
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You, our community, are our partners in this journey toward justice, because you care too much to sit idly by. <b>Only with your active participation can we continue on this path.</b> Can you join with us today by making a tax-deductible contribution toward our work?<br />
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