When we walk the proverbial mile in someone else's shoes, empathy grows.
From my own experiences over the years, I'd strongly suggest that journalists would be well served if more of them went through something fairly rare in the business: having journalism done to them.
When I was in college, I served on a statewide commission that got some press. Later, I played music for a living, and my band was sufficiently popular that we appeared in the media from time to ...