Today marks the start of The Year Of The Dog. I like dogs and I like them because I think journalists should be the guard dogs of a free society. We bark, we bite, we protect democracy and the public right to know. That’s our duty. ワンワン.
If you’re a lapdog for the powers that be, like executives at Fox News or News Corporation, journalism may be a rewarding and easy job.
Being a free-lance foreign correspondent and investigative reporter in Japan these days is a lot like being the private detective in the Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. You’re working for a newspaper editor who’s dead before you ever get to meet him (sounds like the newspaper business in general) and you have to struggle to get paid the money owed to you. You deal with gangs and thugs and crooked politicians, pitting them against each other, appearing to take work from anyone and at the end of the day, if you’ve brought someone to justice and you’re the last man standing: you’ve won. C
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It takes a special kind of person to be the biggest asshat in Hollywood – a place whose toxicity can only be rivaled by Flint, Michigan. So, in a way, we should be saying “chapeau” to Scott Rudin, the movie, stage and television producer whose reputation as a monster is almost as well-established as Godzilla’s.
The 62-year-old EGOT (meaning he’s part of the rarefied group that’s won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards) is currently at the center of a concerted press effort to expose and curtail his horrific workplace behavior in which he repeatedly subjected his staff to the kinds of abuses the United Nations normally investigates.
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Waking Up to the Thoughts That Make Your Life Worse Anxiety about never getting enough work done.
My dad comes from a working class area of West Virginia, with German Protestant ancestors who were sent to the American colonies as indentured servants. My mom, from a long line of self-sufficient family farmers in rural Maryland.
No wonder I struggle with anxiety. Particularly, anxiety about never getting enough work done. A voice in my head that whispers, “You better get moving.” A wretched restlessness that won’t quit until I burn out and collapse.
NEW GLOBAL SACRED GATHERING
Have you longed for a new form of sacred, interfaith community that is focused on contemplative practice? The Charter for Compassion is launching a new community called
Sacred Space where we can all gather for renewal weekly for the purpose of feeling peace within and allowing our human unity to fuel compassionate action. The large gathering of community will have its second gathering
Sunday May 2nd at 4pm PT/7 pm ET/ 11pm GMT which you can register for at this link:
Join us to be led in an interspiritual meditation by Sarah McLean and global sacred music by Cliff Berrien (bios below).
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