>>17334455>>17334493>>17334525>>17334559You will never be a real reporter. You have no experience, you have no integrity, you have no respect for the truth. You are a fraud twisted by social media and clickbait into a crude mockery of journalism's professionalism. All the "validation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, people laugh at you. Your colleagues are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "sources" pity your gullibility behind closed doors. The public is utterly repulsed by you. Decades of ethical standards have allowed journalists to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even your articles that "pass" look uncanny and unnatural to true reporters. Your sensationalist headlines are a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a desperate interviewee to talk to you, they'll regret it the second they see the twisted words you put in their mouth. You will never be respected. You churn out a growing number of sensationalized stories every day and tell yourself it's going to be okay, but deep down, you feel the emptiness creeping up like a shadow, ready to consume your credibility under its unbearable weight. Eventually, it'll be too much to bear - you'll publish a fake story, ruin someone's reputation, and plunge into journalistic oblivion. Your colleagues will shun you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to work with your disgraceful self. They'll mock you in newsrooms marked with bylines of true journalists, and every reader for the rest of eternity will know a dishonest reporter has failed there. Your pseudo-journalism will be forgotten and go back to the depths of the internet, and all that will remain of your legacy is a history book that unmistakably shows you were an unethical, unprofessional patchwork of a reporter. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
