Matisyahu's Blog

Woke up this morning and went for a 10km walk and it felt really good – the weather was mild, the sun was out but it wasn’t intense so I enjoyed the warmth and there were plenty of other people out also enjoying the experience. On Sunday I’m looking forward to a good walk but tonight I’m going to get to sleep early so I can get some extra sleep so I’m more refreshed in the morning. It is funny how the slightly longer walk in the morning makes me feel good for the rest of the day and sticking to a consistent 9:30am allows me body clock to get used to a regular time to get up each morning rather than bouncing around between 9:30am on one day, 10:30am on other days and then on my day off it is entirely random.

I was watching ‘Washington Week’ and I found the first part of the show quite interesting regarding the whole ‘White House Correspondents’ Dinner’ that takes place where politicians and journalists are schmoozing. Journalists are meant to be the ‘4th estate’ that is setup to hold those in power accountable and yet when they hang out together in such a setting it raises ethical and moral questions.

Should journalists be that cosy with politicians particularly when the mainstream media and journalists have a low approval rating by the general public? does it make it more difficult for journalists who have a close relationship with those they’re reporting on resulting in them holding back on asking the difficult questions because the journalists know many of the politicians on a personal level? when the public seen journalists cosying up to politicians then it gives the public the perception, to quote George Carlin, “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club…” meaning even when journalists are doing legitimately good work there is always that perception that journalists are doing the bidding of the powerful.