“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the resolute words of the wheelchair-bound man who was taking office as president in 1933. He was elected in the depths of the Depression, with millions unemployed and the economy in collapse.
However, we don’t often hear the rest of the sentence from that famous inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It has relevance today for journalists and how we do our work.
FDR made clear that the fear he was talking about was a “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
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