Bobbi’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update

‘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?‘

‘It’s no use, in the end, to scream again and again at the cold, cocooned center of power: I need you, just this once, to be the thing you pretend to be’

‘When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?’

‘Yet journalism at its core is one of the most activist endeavors there is. A reporter is supposed to agitate against power, against privilege. Against the slimy wall of press releases and PR nothingspeak that has come to protect every major business and government boardroom ever since Watergate. A reporter is supposed to agitate against silence.’

‘It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.’