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February 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Editors who lack a proper understanding of grammar and sentence structure.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
My entire fucking section was cut…CUT…from the paper, all because some dumb bitch wanted to make an example of us. Have fun getting by without the MOST READ COLUMN IN YOUR FUCKING PAPER, you cunt!
February 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I also fear journalism has become the only way to relate — and not relate — to people.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Old, ugly white men.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Working as a 22-year-old journalist at a newspaper where the median age is 45 and having to deal with old people who don’t have a clue. Even worse when you work in features and cover entertainment and all these people can write about are bands that were cool and innovative 15 years ago but mean nothing today.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Living with, working with, and beings friends with only journalists in a city to which you are not native and having to talk about journalism all day and fearing that it’s become your only way to relate (and not relate) to people.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I hate editors who say, “Sorry we can’t hire you because of budget cuts.”
Listen, if you don’t want to hire me just tell me why. Don’t give me the bullsh!t of, “We don’t have money,” just so you’ll look like the victim.
Tell my why you don’t want to hire me — that way I can learn.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Journalist #32 here again – douche bag sources who insist on calling you to pass along information that is of no earthly use to anyone and pawning their fruitless bounty off as if they were the second coming of Mark Felt.
My productivity is going to take a hit because of this website but, my blood pressure is going down already.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Can we get a little love for micromanaging publishers of 30k circ papers who suppress stories because it’s one of their friend’s wives involved?
No? No love for these self-serving, bottom dwelling wannabe plutocrats?
Well, consider me shocked.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I’m not a journo. Just a disgruntled pre-press worker
whose job will be done in India soon :(
I guess I’ll just sit back and watch ROME burn.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Gannett.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Number one reason newspapers are failing is editors with no guts. Gone are the Ben Bradlee’s of the world.
Editors are nothing but glorified publishers who keep one foot in the advertising department and one foot in focus groups who don’t know news from Shinola (an ancient reference from an ancient and now bought out newspaper reporter). Feel free to read more at freefromeditors.blogspot.com
February 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
This reasoning: “Hmmm lets make an entire special section all photo based, with photos taken by unskilled government officials… and lets have our staff photographer organize it, edit it and design it.”
Wait… what??
February 13th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Not being able to talk dumb editors into spending money on increasing web presence.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Editors thinking they can do too much with not enough resources.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Newspapers not running the Joint Alliance bar evaluations and instead editorializing the bar evaluations to play cronies and throw judicial elections. As if people didn’t weren’t ignorant enough about the judicial races… Just check the recent elections of terribly unqualified candidates over those highly qualified/recommended across the Northern counties of Illinois.
February 12th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I work for a trade pub and the new thing is that the publisher basically wants the whole pub to be rewritten press releases. Oh, and he thinks the best style for a 2,000 word story is …. drumroll… the inverted pyramid. NO feech lede. No narrative.
Special thanks to the editorial director for his lack of balls on this one. BLURGH.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
That Fox owns everything and lies about everything they tell us.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Quark. Nuff said
February 12th, 2008 at 12:43 am
My editor telling me he’d rather I just pose a shot (instead of refusing to shoot) just so he can “fill the hole in the page.”