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These in no way reflect my own beliefs or moral values.
It’s great that she still told the story how it happened.
The necessity to arrive earlier, stay later, and work twice as hard (and get paid half as much), simply for the privilege to be allowed to be there, trailed her like a constant shadow.
she found herself with the power to shape the narrative of the news, not only by which stories she covered but also by how she covered them.
As a journalist and investigative reporter for decades, I have shared this truth with many people and community-based groups. It is what kept me going. Lord knows it wasn’t the money. 😂
Facts were facts. But the storyteller steered the narrative and the narrative steered public perception. It was an invisible power.
“Stay away from him, miss. He’s no good.”
Everyone, Julia had learned, found a way to paint themselves as the heroes in their own stories.
The frailty of life, and the power to end it, was nearly impossible to comprehend.
But we still try to understand it. Great for moving readers along.
“Maybe so,” he said. “But you can’t change the truth.”
Amen
When you take on the role of wife and mother, you choose to renounce whatever individual liberty you previously enjoyed,”
“You still have everything—your social position, Jack’s name, your children, your homes, your lovely life. Never mind that girl. She was nothing—just a terrible, terrible mistake.”
Jewish tradition of carrying a grandparent’s name and admirable qualities forward.
