{"id":824359,"date":"2021-09-28T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=824359"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:14:00","slug":"take-time-to-be-sexual-with-yourself-and-other-self-care-lessons-for-professional-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/take-time-to-be-sexual-with-yourself-and-other-self-care-lessons-for-professional-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Take Time To Be Sexual With Yourself\u2019 and Other Self-Care Lessons for Professional Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftake-time-to-be-sexual-with-yourself-and-other-self-care-lessons-for-professional-journalists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=824359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.896907216495\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Poynter Institute course for traumatized journalists advises: &#8220;Give yourself affirmations, praise yourself. &#8230; Allow yourself to cry&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/toobin-final-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/toobin-final.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/toobin-final-300x201.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 September 28, 2021 2:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"92.693025713279\">\n<p>American journalists are increasingly struggling to cope with the on-the-job stress and trauma of reporting the news and posting about it on Twitter. &#8220;I crawled in bed and cried for our pre-pandemic lives,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/parody\/journo-tears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in April 2020.&#8221;Tears that had been waiting a month to escape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Poynter Institute has developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/shop\/self-directed-course\/journalism-and-trauma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">course<\/a> for traumatized professional journalists that includes a long list of &#8220;self-care&#8221; strategies to alleviate the stress of having to cover, for example, the brutal &#8220;whipping&#8221; of Haitian migrants at the southern border\u2014whether or not it actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/photographer-images-horseback-border-patrol-agents-whip-anyone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happened<\/a>. (The Poynter Institute&#8217;s fact-checking website, PolitiFact, was unwilling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2021\/sep\/24\/what-we-know-about-images-border-patrol-and-haitia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issue a verdict<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take time to be sexual\u2014with yourself, [or] with a partner,&#8221; reads one item of the list of suggested coping strategies. Perhaps Stelter could learn a thing or two from his colleague, disgraced CNN legal analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/jeffrey-toobin-rises-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Toobin<\/a>, who is an experienced practitioner of this particular form of self-care. Poynter does not, however, recommend forcing your colleagues to watch.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say that Stelter&#8217;s methods are frowned upon. &#8220;Allow yourself to cry&#8221; is also included among the recommendations, as is &#8220;Give yourself affirmations, praise yourself,&#8221; and &#8220;Find ways to increase your sense of self-esteem.&#8221; Most professional journalists seek to accomplish this by discussing the indispensable role professional journalists play in &#8220;speaking truth to power&#8221; by relentlessly exposing the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/trump-twitter-typo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spelling errors<\/a> in Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The self-care suggestions often overlap. One way for a journalist to increase their self-esteem might be to &#8220;wear clothes you like,&#8221; such as a fedora or a $380 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-kate-bolduan-facts-first-sweater-hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cashmere sweater<\/a> embroidered with a slogan like &#8220;facts first.&#8221; Additionally, the Jeffrey Toobin method of self-care would presumably help one &#8220;decrease stress in your life,&#8221; provided the care is administered in a more private setting. Not all media companies will be as understanding as CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists are urged to practice &#8220;spiritual care&#8221; as well. Strategies include making time for reflection, spending time with nature, cherishing optimism and hope, as well as singing and meditating. The lesson plan also suggests that journalists &#8220;be open to not knowing,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t bad advice, it&#8217;s just easier said than done in the world of professional punditry.<\/p>\n<p>Some media organizations have enlisted the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism training and research organization based in Florida, to instruct their employees in the art of self-care. On Monday, journalists from KATU News, an ABC affiliate in the Pacific Northwest, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeKATU\/status\/1442357767742787587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took the day off<\/a> to attend &#8220;a seminar to help deal with on-the-job stress and trauma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please keep America&#8217;s long-suffering journalists in your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Poynter Institute course for traumatized journalists advises: &#8220;Give yourself affirmations, praise yourself. &#8230; Allow yourself to cry&#8221;  Andrew Stiles \u2022 September 28, 2021 2:55 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}