Journalism gets fused with art
“Empathy putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, a natural product of journalism is now limited by our screens.”
Here we are, experiencing loss together, but we can’t gather. I can FaceTime you; I can text you puppy photos. But this process makes us that much more dependent on the phones we use for work, life, doomscrolling, and the other pandemic realities we desperately want to escape.
It’s like an apocalyptic movie where the credits never roll. And we’re still sitting there, staring at the screen.
We’re pushing journalism into that same 2-D world. When people finish consuming our work, much of it hard and depressing this year, they sit in their sadness, alone, that screen their only companion. Empathy putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, a natural product of journalism is now limited by our screens. Empathizing together is difficult, and it can often feel forced or exhausting. That’s a tough new normal, especially