1. You can’t spell(as if nobody uses spell check,wtf)
2. Even though you have worked in this industry for years, in one concentration or another,they ask you in the interview,”why are you such a late bloomer”.
3. Your last editor you worked for said,”it took me 45 minutes to edit your article.” Whatever, it doesn’t take 45 minutes to write, then alone edit. And, the final product was as-is.
4. We are looking for entry level people only. This translated means, we only hire those who are in their early twenty’s. To those people getting hired now, wait and see you will get the shaft to when you get to be 35-40.

5. You are too honest.I wish other reporter’s we as honest as you.

6. You are getting to close to being real-and we don’t like that.

7. We only hire the best of the best—yeh!it’s real hard to copy a PR release that has the sources listed for you. A kid could do that.

8. Rush wanted to know where the real journalist are, well, ask the “masons”. A lot of news outlets don’t want reporter’s anymore, but rather english majors that have no concept of journalism.

9. We just don’t like you, even thought you never met the person being interviewed before.

10. Now, why is the industry dying? Well, my guess is that the industry has written articles on civil rights, workers rights and labor laws, yet those same laws are never enforced within. Nobody values the editors opinion anymore.

That Gannett plans to layoff another 1,000-2,000 workers fills me with a sense of epicaricacy.

I haven’t yet, although I keep thinking I one day might have no other choice!

Please, please, PLEASE sell us off, Freedom Communications. We’re one of the few actual profitable assets in the newspaper industry. Don’t take us down with you.

Is this what you meant by “good important work”, O Publisher? This is how you motivate us?

‘Cause I’m starting to doubt you.

Readers are dumb.