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Finding Joy In Being Useful

Name: Finding Joy In Being Useful
Uploaded: 2025-08-28T21:01:01+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: A YouTube video by Mick Hunt in which the speaker reflects on mainstream media's short attention span for crises and recounts their first trip to Flint…

28 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Mick Hunt in which the speaker reflects on mainstream media's short attention span for crises and recounts their first trip to Flint, describing the situation as an "absolute disaster" and deciding to devote ongoing coverage — possibly a defining life mission rather than routine journalism.

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I just realized, like, you know, so many other stories in mainstream media, even independent media, is kind of like you parachute in, you cover it, and then you're out. And, you know, everyone has a very short attention span. And we can't stay on stories, whether they're mass shootings or whatever have you. But to me, this was a crisis, was an understatement. This was a absolute disaster. And I just realized from that first trip in Flint. That I was going to have to dedicate more than one story to it. And as I kept going back, it wasn't really, to me anymore about journalism. It became. This might be my defining thing in life.