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"The most frustrating aspect of all this is that most journalists know how to be tenacious. They know how to chase down a story, how to speak truth to power."

It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion.

What is this work we do? What are we good for?

The question about art, about writers that stayed silent, of systems that removed the name Palestine, about selective activism and selective concern, about looking the other way, about writing about the moon when millions are dying for why should they concern themselves with such gruesome things.

What is the ethical legitimacy of any system in which one has to hope the most privileged sliver of global society decides, in large enough numbers, that a sufficient number of children have been murdered to warrant choosing a different brand of couscous? That enough migrants have been caged or drowned to make a particular vacation spot unappealing?

How does one finish the sentence: “It is unfortunate that tens of thousand and of children are dead, but…”

I fear this book will depress me but alas I will read and learn