If you value journalism, you will appreciate that good investigators don't fall off trees. They are inducted into writing through personal experience, much of it unpleasant. It takes one to know one is a good adage, because to journalise you need to visualise.
One hopes American writers are not directed towards topics or subject matter. The freedom of journalists to write about what they see using the slant of personal vision and experience is extraordinarily valuable. Our world is made of myths that critical thinking exposes. Try telling a story you know is untrue to see how gullible the average person is. Perhaps, if you are known for stretching the truth people develop a sense for the truth by reexamining their most cherished beliefs. Remember the satirist who proposed the Irish eat their children at the time of the Irish famine!
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Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.