FINE LINE BETWEEN A CRUSADER AND A PERSECUTOR

One can start on a journey on the right path but still end up at the wrong destination. Why? Because as human beings, we are not infallible. Along the journey we are subjected to many , challenges, lies, corruption, threats and even praises, that affect and changes us, conciously or not. Investigative reporters, writers and columnists are humans and they have their own prejudices, build through years of experience and run ins with the powerful force they must deal with. Power as we know can corrupt not only those possessing it but also those that come into contact with it. Power do not mean only the rich. We see our colleague who is regard with high esteem for his work. We are jealous (in a good sense) of his/her success and want to emulate him/her and even try to surpass his/her achievements.

In trying to achieve our ambition we can cross the thin line between being a crusader for a cause into a persecutor. We begin to make a lot of presumptions and depend more and more on our sources that we find harder to verify the facts. The pressure to live up to your reputation or even worse, you begin to think since you are right and the other side must be guilty. They praise Caeser just before they murdered him. What I mean is that a lot of praises can kill us, from inside.

Our writing becomes more arrogant and intolerant of the smallest mistakes. It is I and You. No more We, as working together and seeing the other side from a positive stand. How can I be right and they are also right? One of us must be wrong. Why? Can't both be right or even both are wrong and right? Our soul is corrupt by all the praises heap upon us everyday and we are now the persecutors for good cause.