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> We finally managed to recall the first name of our point person on the council How do you not have at least a hand scrawled itinerary ready to prompt you? >
by ttymck 2y ago
> We finally managed to recall the first name of our point person on the council
How do you not have at least a hand scrawled itinerary ready to prompt you?
> Uli joked about our holdup at the checkpoint, but Marcos didn’t laugh
Why were they so unaware of the severity of the situation?
Is it uncharitable to say their behavior makes me question the caliber of their journalism?
- neilv 2y agoIf they're writing first for a UK audience, how they described the incident could be cultural. I can totally imagine some UK people I know writing or speaking about an incident that way. It doesn't mean they're less aware or capable than someone who would write of the same incident differently.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoI'm sorry but it objectively reads as incompetence. There's no other way to read it.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agodanger signals, or what constitutes a dangerous situation, changes from country to country. so if you hop on a jet, drive to some area out and about, it would be easy to be somewhere you are in danger and not realize it. i had a co-worker from another country talk about going somewhere in an american city, and we were all like 'dude you could have died', he shrugged, said it didn't seem bad.
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- amanaplanacanal 2y agoLooks like the article was reprinted from Harper’s, which is an American magazine.
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- irrational 2y ago> They squinted at the business card in a plastic sleeve that I was passing off as a press credential If you are passing off a business card as fake press credentials, you aren’t a real journalist.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI’m not sure what other credentials an American journalist would have. Freedom of the press means everyone can be a journalist.
- lupusreal 2y agoFor some reason a lot of people think you can't be a journalist unless a corporation has blessed you. It's strange.
- BrandonMarc 2y agoThe corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.
- stonogo 2y agoI think it is uncharitable. Depending on who you're dealing with, trying to hide any checkpoint problems might come across as a red flag. Joking about it is a way to show that you're honest while indicating you don't think there's a serious problem now. It's up to the listener to agree or not, but at least you reported the incident.