“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
My daughter sometimes complains that no one notices her or pays any attention to her.
“That’s wonderful!,” I respond. “You’d make a terrific Private Investigator or Spy or [as this post suggests] a Journalist!”
I never could fake Empathy.
So that explains it!