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We’re doing our best to kill journalism, but I’m happy to see that it’s still alive and well if you know where to find it. Will it be in 20 years? I dunno. So give money to propublica reveal frontlinepbs and anyone else that funds the causes.
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I fell in love with journalism in high school, but didn’t become a journalist myself. I loved Engineering and Science too, which is what I did. I suppose I like finding the truth from data.
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They’re not so different. You need to find the truth from someone or something reluctant to give it. But we pay one very well and the other a poverty wage.
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Why is that? We’re both just as important to society. We need bridges and we need people to ask what happened to all the money for the bridge and why it collapsed.
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In the end, almost all intellectual fields are like that. Looking for truth where you can find it. Art, Music, Literature, Science, Engineering, Journalism, Math. In my mind, it’s what separates us from all the other animals. That makes us worth saving, in the end.
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And if we squander that opportunity we have and succumb to corruption, avarice and the destruction of ourselves, we will have wasted the greatest gift bestowed upon us by the universe.
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We are one of the very few (if only) places sapient life in the universe. It is a responsibility, a moral imperative, not to allow ourselves to destroy it.
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk.