Please Don't Post This On Social Media
“The world is on fire and I am writing about it," I wrote a few weeks ago...
When I sat down to write the last edition of NMYBI (and the first of 2025), I ignorantly hoped I’d have a normal work-sleep balance for the first time in my life.
Alas, global news continued to happen, and my family continued to live on different sides of the globe, and I also ended up back in hospital (oopsie!).
Anyhow, here’s what I wrote for Mamamia following my last NMYBI post.
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"The world is on fire and I am writing about it," I wrote in my weekly newsletter this morning. I didn't actually know if I would be writing specifically about the literal fires engulfing California, but I know that it's all I've been able to think about.
And that's not because it's my job to be online, as a Gen Z journalist. It's because my family lives there, including my 14-month old nephew.
Yet, according to many on social media, the amount of media coverage that the LA bushfires are getting is "frustrating" since our bushfire seasons don't get the same global coverage.
And that's why I ask: would this coverage be more okay to you if my brother moved his life, his wife, and their son back home to Queensland?
My family has a real affinity for being scattered all over the globe, despite not being a particularly large family.
I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. My brother is in Los Angeles with his wife, her family, and their son. My sister lives back home in Australia on the Queensland/New South Wales border with her fiancé and their daughter.
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