Response to Amelia Frey's Blogpost "Challenges of a Good Journalist"

I found Amelia's blogpost on making the important interesting fascinating to read. Humans are drawn to certain things and subjects even if the subjects do not qualify to be newsworthy/"important". For example Amelia said ," I would much rather read about a mysterious disappearance than what tax-bill was denied," which I can personally 100% agree with. To add to her post, whether you think something is interesting also varies person to person based on your political view, your age, your career, etc. If you find yourself with a little bit of free time I recommend reading her post. 
                    -em 

 here's a link to her full blogpost: http://myfreythoughts.blogspot.com/2018/09/challenges-of-good-journalist.html

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