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February 18th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I hate that I feel like such a cop-out for thinking about leaving journalism, even though there are plenty of good reasons. Maybe I’m the idealistic, visionary hero that can get an MBA and find the right venture capitalist and internet ad sales guy to rescue the industry. But, then again, am I really going to experiment with something someone else already hasn’t?
February 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I think the newspapers need a bail out!
February 18th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Angry (or amused) because if newsroom management here were re-arranging the deck chairs, it would be an improvement.
Instead, they’re still sending out ivory-tower memos about the proper use and spelling of “chaise longue.”
February 18th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
RE: AJ #8077: How long did you take up space while others who loved the profession were laid off? What, just biding your time till law school? Go write a children’s book. Actually, you sound like most of the new hires I’ve met lately. No commitment to the job – you just want someone to print the sentences about yourself.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Ahh, citizen journalism. The Albany Herald reminds us every day that anyone can do it.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:45 am
1. My editor rewrote my lead and turned it into a sentence fragment.
2. His communication skills (lack of) are horrific. The newsroom typically is the last to know of changes to our newspaper or job expectations.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:04 am
AJ #8084 — Hey, JUST TYPE YOUR NAME!
DUH!
February 17th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Dear Tribune,
How about paying your stringers once in a while? I know it’s hard, what with you laying off a third of your staff and having a declining empire to contend with, but I don’t do this just for the clips.
Love,
Me
February 17th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Angry at stupid AP weather report that always mixes up the highs and lows!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
“Horseracing and The Death of Journalism”
Most all the Winning Horses that run in Horseraces
are Alpha-type Horses or direct descendants of Alpha-type Horses..
That is to say, they’re wild.. rebellious.. warring.. cunning..
hyper.. risky.. fast..
perhaps even a lil’ bit dangerous sometimes..
..but ultimately they’re warriors
who’ll either win, or die trying
February 17th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Interesting-interesting-interesting trumps local-local-local. But most hyper-local papers I’ve seen haven’t a clue about how to be interesting.
February 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Several years ago, there was poisonkitchen.com But, apparently, the “heat” became a little too great when newspaper department heads were named, the skewing of performance evaluations became public and secrets of unspent newsroom operating budgets were revealed. After a couple years, its plug was pulled, and poisonkitchen.com was never to be heard from again.
February 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
You know what sucks? Giving up your dreams of being a rock star so you can do the safe thing, go back to college. You decide that being a newspaper reporter would be fun, like Clark Kent except not as nerdy (or Superman). But then, after dropping thousands of dollars into tuition and bleeding every ounce of energy into your college paper and building up a solid body of work, you realize that no one’s reading the paper anymore. But they’re still listening to music that’s crappier than the stuff you were writing before you decided to take the safe road.
To think of all the awesome guitar gear my tuition dollars could’ve purchased…
February 17th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
My boss actually just said “I wonder how C. C. Sabathia will fare in the American League. Why is no one talking about this?”
No one with a brain is talking about this, dip shit, because Sabathia was in Cleveland for YEARS and Cleveland is in the AMERICAN LEAGUE. What we’re talking asking instead is how can our newspaper justify having someone in charge of the SPORTS section that does not know a damn thing about SPORTS?
For further proof, remember when you seriously asked, “Magic Johnson had HIV?” and the room fell completely silent?
February 17th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
“Hyper local” is newspaper-speak for stories about something so inconsequential that they shouldn’t even have been written in the first place.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
AJ 8083:
“Local” is stuff that happens in your area of circulation.
“Hyper-local” is the same but of no possible interest to anyone anywhere else. Think of what the AP would pick up as a “hyper” litmus-test: If they want it, it’s not hyper.
It’s not a new concept. It will only save a paper that expects its geriatric readers to live forever.
February 17th, 2009 at 6:24 am
There should be a Web site for ex-journalists who can gripe about the profession who are now free to identify themselves (instead of doing so anonymously).
February 17th, 2009 at 3:21 am
LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL AND GUESS WHAT … MORE FUCKING LOCAL.
Because of course, it’s a new idea if you just SAY IT LOUDER AND REPEAT IT MORE OFTEN.
And it helps to make an old idea sound fresh by adding colorful adjectives in front of it. Like we need to be more HYPER LOCAL. What the fuck is hyper local? Please, someone fucking explain to me what hyper local is and how it is A. a new concept and B. will save your FUCKING LOCAL PAPER.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I am angry that my editor managed to contribute at least five inaccuracies to my lead today. I mean really. Me = over it.
February 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
in j-school and appalled at paying $120,000 to learn the basics of HTML and how to crop a photo in photoshop! I should have given my neighbor $20 and let him kick me in the balls!