making a vaguely personal vent post and getting a couple hundred reblogs with tags saying #does anyone else see it or has it not started yet #imminent death andy #he doesn't know #28 days to live and he's worried about this #2 weeks 2 hours 22 minutes make a wish yall #the equivalent of seeing a bunch of bloodstains before a boss door in ds3 #oc: the sickly dier
I managed to capture a moment soon after a WKCR radio field reporter was able to return safely to the studio.
For those who don't know WKCR is a Columbia University associated radio station mainly focused on jazz, but since the protests it has turned into genuinely the best place to receive information about the ongoing protest.
These student field reporters, who to my understanding do not receive money and have done this mainly out of a sense of journalistic integrity, have gone hours upon hours without sleep or a solid meal over the past 48 hours due to Columbia's cracking down on student protests
Hearing the moment this reporter got back safe was heartbreaking. Immediately before this, the person temporarily running the broadcast expressed his love for the field reporter returning, you could sense genuine relief in his voice
In a better world, these students would be held up by their university as what they are, the future great minds of journalism. Instead they've been punished for doing their job
As of the time I'm writing this post their website is down due to high traffic, but I'm going to link it anyway. I urge you to donate to the station if you can when the website is restored, it is the least we can do