So I ended up caring about it more than I thought.
There are many different reasons as to why someone wants to become a journalist growing up, but typically it has to do with how they want to "report the truth" or to "unravel the story of others". It can get more complex than that but that's the simpliest way to look at why one wants it.
Let's say they want to show the truth to the world, they would quickly realise that it's very hard to actually do it, after all if the truth is meaningful it would also take a high amount of effort to be able to be seen, let alone uncovered.
With uncovering stories it's typically a much easier job, you don't need to risk your life to tell the story of some old person who has been working on something small but important.
Perhaps it's because of that he decided to do only the first one and not the second one, after all it's not like the efforts meant anything in the end, even though nobody who can say something on the matter said something about it.
Why go through anything together when in the end the journalist is just going to throw away the one thing that makes him something decent with what he preferred?
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