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In today’s contribution to the media wreckoning, I want to talk to you about the cost of silence. THREAD (1/6) #publicmediastories
When I was being victimized in a local radio station, I thought, “If I am being verbally and emotionally abused out in the open, and nobody is doing anything to stop it, they all must think I deserve it.” (2/6)
I stared my career in public radio as an NPR Kroc Fellow. In my first year in public radio, I had 13 national stories on the air. After 10 months of incessant abuse at KUT, I chose my mental health and I haven’t worked in public radio since. (4/6)
I started internalizing the insults my manager was screaming at me. As I watched my white colleagues put on noise-cancelling headphones, I started thinking of myself as someone who isn’t worth standing up for. (3/6)
