I was mainly a reporter and photojournalist. The pay often sucks, the stress is high, the workload is often ridiculous, and the competition is cut throat. Also, they expect you to fill all sorts of different roles at a lot of places (you aren't just a photojournalist, you're also a video editor, copy editor, fact checker, writer, etc.) because they claim they can't hire more staff (even though the assholes at the top are making crazy amounts of money relative to what they pay staff).
I mostly worked for newspapers and a few magazines doing photography, editing, and writing with a dash of video. You can get by, especially if you sell out, but mostly it's a miserable, thankless job for shit pay and tons of stress. It wasn't really worth the occasional cool experiences when I couldn't support my family very well. I work in tech now, making a living wage.
We live in legally wacky time though, I'd probably err on the side of caution and announce the recording: It'd still have a deterrent effect and help prevent any legal fuckery.
Sounds like there's a non-zero chance of extradition then, and would they care? Depends on the circumstances I guess. It still seems like announcing that the call is being recorded would have a good deterrent effect though.
Way too many politicians seem waaay too comfortable abusing their power to stay in power and flagrantly disregard the people they have literally sworn to represent.
A History of Violence was pretty underrated. Barry Lyndon bored the hell out of me, but the lighting was very impressive from a technical perspective (they actually used candles and a super low aperture lens for some scenes, no additional lighting).
It's almost like you shouldn't put unvetted code into production or something... Nah, that's crazy!