To use a metaphor Marcos used for critical journalists, we are mosquitoes – irritants on the skin of power. Or, as the former Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said of East Timor, we are the pebble in the shoe of the powerful. Our task is to make power uncomfortable. We do so armed with facts and evidence, not with polemic and argument. We are the conscience of our societies. We hold up a mirror to power. The work we do is important. It is also dangerous. -Sheila Coronel, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and the Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia Journalism School.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:46:00 +0000
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