Roasted Baby Potatoes

20210714 #breakfastdiary 149, 27°C/foggy I pan-fry boiled baby potatoes in oil. #roastedbabypotatoes I was hoping to recreate that taste I always used to buy at highway rest stops during vacation season, but the attempt fell short. Of course, my all-time favorite rest-stop snack is #semidriedsquid. Assemblyman Kim Ui-gyeom recently brought up the incident of reporters impersonating police officers, saying that 'given how much time has passed, the standards have changed, and by today's measure it was clearly wrong' — but adding that 'for older, veteran reporters, it was actually a pretty common thing to do.' Here's what reporter Jung Hwan-bong had to say about that. At the very least, the reporters I worked alongside at the Hankyoreh over the past ten years were nothing like what he described. Instead of the quick, easy trick of impersonating police, my junior colleagues would stay up late writing long letters to persuade a source. They'd rewrite a single sentence in a routine incident report five times over, worrying it might be misread, and ask around for the most accurate way to phrase it. I never once met a senior colleague who pushed me to break reporting ethics just to land a story. It wasn't because we didn't know the 'trick' of using a guard's phone, or because of some unusually strong sense of law-abiding. (Jung Hwan-bong, 'Kim Ui-gyeom's Sensibility') The article closes like this: 'Am I reporting properly and writing it right?' 'Could my article wrong someone unfairly?' 'Is this story actually in the public interest?'... Because in the fierce conscience of today's reporters, there's no room left for war stories from an era when only the goal mattered. I work in a different field now, but it's worth chewing on — especially when the lecture comes dressed as #backinmyday.