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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's something a guy named Cockburne used to ask his interns. A way of gauging if they had fire inside them, if they thought of the world as something awful and broken that could and should be mended.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interns at what exactly? Who the fuck is Cockburne?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Alex Cockburn was a socialist journalist who worked for The Nation. He was pretty solid on his analysis of US foreign policy, but kinda sucked on Freedom of Speech.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

And if anyone is reading this and has never heard it said aloud, unfortunately it's pronounced "coh-burn" sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Well yeah journalists tend to.