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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycling filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tome filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix t56 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck (2019 April Fool’s Edit)” for April Fool’s Day on April 1st, “Zynski’s Manifesto” for the day the Unabomber was arrested on April 3rd , and “Journalists Revealing the World” for Hug a Newsperson day on April 4th , April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck (2019 April Fool’s Edit)” for April Fool’s Day on April 1st, “Zynski’s Manifesto” for the day the Unabomber was arrested on April 3rd , and “Journalists Revealing the World” for Hug a Newsperson day on April 4th , April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Journalists
  Revealing
  the World

Janet Kuypers
4/4/19, written on National
Hug a Newsperson Day

When researching and releasing
the news, by breaking the story,
say, of academia’s expropriation
of funding from original desired
locations might not sound like
it’s groundbreaking material, but
that is at the heart of what we
journalists do. We find clues, and
we piece together the whole truth
about what’s going on behind
closed doors that they do not
want you to see. Back in the day,
that is what they taught journalism
majors at the 3rd best news/ed
college in the United States.
Because back in the day, before
there were bloggers who snooped
and called themselves “citizen
journalists,” back in the day
people took the concept of
journalism seriously. Freedom
of the press meant something,
and it was something vital here
to preserve our freedoms and
our rights. And that was our oath
as journalists, to tell you everything
we could, so you could make
truly informed decisions. And
we’ll be locked up to protect
our sources, because as I said,
we made an oath that this is
what is best for all of the world.

Once people were tracking down
a Nazi Jew killer when he was
stationed in Rome, who escaped
persecution, fleeing Germany
and Italy. When ABC news reporter
Sam Donaldson joined up with
the Nazi hunters on the final leg
of their quest, they cornered
the Nazi Captain Erich Priebke
on the street. The people who
tracked and found this man
were stunned when they heard
this American television reporter
fire one question after another
at this man, not allowing him
to rest on any of his responses.
Because, you see, when it
comes down to it, that is
precisely what we do. We do
everything in our power
to get all the answers, and bring
them to light for the world to see.

Looking for a more modern
story? okay, fine — while reading
the Wall Street Journal one day
(and yeah, I actually read the paper,
I unfolded, flipped, and bent
the cumbersome pages, because
that’s what it’s all about when
you want to get the full story),
I read about how reporters
kept perturbing app builders
for Facebook until they uncovered
that the apps were collecting
and storing data from people
using their apps to share
with the world — which they had
no right to do. So yeah, it’s nice
to see that journalists still know
what journalism means, and
will do whatever it takes to
get to the heart of a story.

And sure, when you thumb
through that paper (if you still
get one, and don’t just rely
on your phone) you may pass
the reviews of concerts or
recent television shows, because
really, how newsworthy is that?
But as frivolous as those things
may seem, it’s still a part of
trying to keep you as well informed
as you could possibly be.
It’s the least we can do.

And sure, there may be a lot of
talking heads out there on cable,
or once cable has rejected them
they turn to Internet podcasts,
wait a minute, that’s how most
nobodies start their “trek” to
“fame”, by spouting all of their
ramblings on a podcast, hoping
enough people will listen —

which is so different from
radicals like the Unabomber,
who hated technology, who
had to use The New York Times
and the Washington Post to
get his Manifesto out there,
and it’s only when his brother
read his Manifesto did he realize
who the Unabomber really was.

Wait a minute, I just brought the
Unabomber story up as an example
of abusing the Internet as a form
of “mass media”, but now
I realize that this was another
way the press can be helpful to
uncover details and reveal truths.

Maybe this was a reason that
the Founding Fathers made a point
to include the Freedom of the press
in the First Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution. Because
somebody has to keep the
government — and major
corporations, and eccentric
rich billionaires — under watch.
And us journalists are more
than up to the challenge.
So if you see a news reporter,
or a journalist, maybe you
should thank them, or give them
a hug. Because we need them
to make sure everything
stays in check for everyone.
It makes me glad to know
they exist, because our world
wouldn’t be our world
without them.


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