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10,095 Responses to “Why are you angry today?”
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February 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 am
I’ve covered scores of executions, and witnessed 30 by injection or electric chair. But I was not allowed to hit the trifecta by covering a hanging in another state. This would have made me a more well-rounded reporter, and I’m angry that I was not allowed to go.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
I’m angry that our raises are getting smaller and spread further apart–every 15 months now!
I’m angry none of our editors care about good writing, only filling space.
I’m angry my 20-something editor treats everyone like kindergarten pupils.
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
Yesterday one of our reporters FINALLY snapped and yelled at the “information center” (what a joke) that no one talks to each other. He called the web desk and gave us the story, and he talked to the assignment editor, whose job it is to tell everyone.
FINALLY, someone other than the web desk comprehends that there’s zero communication between parts of the newsroom.
Not that that’ll change anything. It never has. It never will.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 am
This site is actually making me a little nervous about graduating with an English degree…
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:40 am
i’m angry that my editor threw a chair at me 8 months ago, and I never reported him to HR because I feared the repercussions of being involved in an HR debacle in the high-school clique that is the world of newspapers.
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:37 am
My editor has no balls. And even then she’s useless at it…
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 am
I am not angry. It’s Saturday and I won’t see the office again until Monday. Then all the bullshit begins again.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:25 am
This is what I am:
- A student first.
- Graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in three months.
- Worried that despite five years, a lot of work on my part and several thousand dollars, I’m still not going to be prepared to handle jack shit in my first job.
- Scared that declining subscriptions, losses, lay-offs and hiring freezes means I may not even get a job in the first place.
- Wanting desperately to believe that what I am reading here is the exception, not the rule.
This is what I am angry about:
- Apathy. From the public, from editors, from reporters – it really doesn’t matter. If you can’t bring yourself to care about what you are doing/reading/pursuing in life, and especially if you can’t care enough to demand or create quality work, then get out of the way of those of us who do.
- That those of us who do care are drowned out by the non-shouts of everyone who doesn’t.
- That shouting has taken the place of rational discussion.
- That in the guise of fostering “rational” discussion and “considering all sides,” I have been forced to listen to some really stupid shit.
- That somewhere, at some point, I am probably going to have to make the choice between doing what is right and true according to the ideals of this profession, and keeping my job.
- That I might choose to keep the job.
- That too many people are reacting to the changes in technology rather than using them to innovate.
- That too many people in the industry are still fighting the changes instead of even reacting to them.
- That I am this angry about a profession I want to love.
This is the part that makes no sense:
- I am still optimistic.
This is the part where you tell me I am an idiot.
This is a favor I ask:
- If you hire me, don’t grind that optimism out of me. I’ve used it to get this far, and I’m going to need it to keep going after you’ve retired.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 am
I’m angry because only two out of five producers in our six-hour morning show put all their effort into the newscasts… not only because it’s our job, but because we are some of the very few journalists left who actually give a crap. Then they get to dupe over whatever they want or call in sick whenever they want because of office policy.
While at the same time, we can’t fire our lead female anchor because (even though she makes fact errors all the time and recently addressed Sen. Clinton saying, “Hi Hillary”) she flirts with the boss and e-mails the heads of the departments to keep her job. Arrrgghhh!!! What’s happening to real news and journalism?!!!
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
Will people stop telling me that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ?
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
I’m angry with young, inexperienced reporters straight out of university who think they can write whatever waffle they like – regardless of whether it makes sense or will land the publication in trouble – and then argue with their seniors and subeditors when it gets changed.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I am angry at a company called The Empty Canoe. They hired me to write stories for them. Stories that people had hired them to have written. Then they disapeared, leaving me unpaid for all my work and more importantly, having taken money from the people who had paid to have the stories writen. They were found guilty in a court of law in Washington State, and were told they couldn’t start another similar business, but were not made to repay their victims.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I’m angry that the chief Web guy at my paper regularly fucks up because he can’t spell “cat” if you don’t spot him the “c” and the “t”, and yet I get told, when I point out all his mistakes, that “he’s a good reporter, he just doesn’t spell well.” Um — shouldn’t spelling kind of be a prerequisite for the job?
Guy once spelled the governor’s name, Doyle, as “D O Y A L.” In a headline. Can somebody tell me why he has a job?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/02/17/a-video-guide-to-video-strategy
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
so.. many.. control.. freaks..
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I don’t know what made me angrier: the fact that, as I started reading #865, I was sure it was someone from my newsroom, or the fact that I gradually realized it wasn’t.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Um, #716 makes me angry because of how hypocritical he is.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
You can’t be a journalist and take a vacation. You spend the entire week before you leave working ahead and the week you get back catching up.
Oh, and you have no money to go on vacation.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I’m angry because of this site. Journalists are mostly against anonymous sources unless there is an extremely good reason why it should be unnamed. Yet here is a site where you can be anonymous, write whatever you want and smear anybody you want, including a company you may not work for. There are already six comments slamming Gannett. What if the comments came from Gannett’s competition? Just because a couple of cynical, pissed off journalists want to vent to the world, it doesn’t mean it should be through anonymous postings. Journalists are sacrificing their professional ethics for a silly vent.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I am pissed because I don’t get to be a freakin angry journalist!