Bend and not break
There comes a point in every journalist’s career when they inevitably butt heads with buttheads (aka PR personnel/senior writers/even their own editors) who seek to censor their work and make them pay appropriate heed to the “correct” agenda. This despite any amount of pride the journalist in question has poured into their writing.
Much has been said about the media climate in which we live. The less informed continue to lambast journalism in our country, as though all writers seek to publicise the trivial pursuits of governmental bodies and nothing more. As though that is all we aspire to. It is enough to break the fiercest spirit.
If we don’t fight now when will we ever? Through the fruitless frustration and righteous indignance that may never change anything in the end. Because everybody has an agenda and an overweening sense that theirs is of utmost importance.
Still, when words are all we have, who can blame us for guarding our own so fiercely?
