Being a Citizen Journalist

You ever notice the silence after a difficult conversation? Sitting in your sternum like a stone, heavy and wrong-shaped. Widdowson Exchange Post-Mortem I have been mulling over my interview with Widdowson since it happened yesterday. In our exchange, I was explicitly uninterested in the what, in the facts and figures she was trying to prove. This is already well-documented. APTN Investigates has done the work, and Scholar Sean Carleton at the University of Manitoba has spent years cataloguing the tactics, cherry-picking, and deliberate minimization. It is mind-boggling to me how Widdowson cannot, at the very least, see the optics of her argument being so distasteful. Her questioning of the number 215 dead is so easy to compare to the holocaust denier questioning the number six million dead. The dead are not a debate. What I was interested in was the why. I have a genuine curiosity as to why she has dedicated herself to this, specifically. What gets her out of bed? What gives her days…