Gaining perspective on working as a journalist in the United States

Gaining perspective on working as a journalist in the United States

Trip Jennings Southern sheriffs have threatened to arrest me, and I’ve landed on more than one governor’s blacklist. So aggravating has been my persistence that, on occasion, spokespeople for elected officials have hollered at me in public. A journalist’s life in the United States is not for the timid. However, I’ve never felt physically in danger. I thought about this last week as I sat with journalists from around South America and Latin Ameri…