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December 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I’m angry at some of the job postings on journalismjobs.com. Um, if you want people to email their application information, doesn’t it make sense to include your email address? Why is common sense always a rare commodity?
December 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I was fired today for no good reason. I’m sure you can understand why I’m angry. Let’s see how long I’m unemployed…
December 1st, 2009 at 4:18 am
9949- I believe you meant “shortsighted”, not “foresighted”. Hopefully you’re more careful when you have to update your resume. And yea, with an attitude like yours-eventually you will be looking for work again.
So entitled aren’t you? Why don’t you pull your head outta your ass and try to look at the world with an UNbiased view. Or is the inability to do that the real reason you left journalism? Hmm. I wonder.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:54 am
#9955: You know what I’m furious about? Clicking! You made me click all the way back to the page that ancient dinosaur entry was on. I hate clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking. It’s tiring, man! I’m lazy!
Fuck this. I need to steal a sandwich. ;)
November 30th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
9949,
Where to start?
“The reason you don’t think monster.com is useful is because when you post a resume — no one cares.”
Duh. There’s nothing in the post about posting resumes. The comment specifically addressed the quality of the job listings. In all that time you worked at a newspaper, didn’t you ever learn to read for comprehension?
The postings are mostly either fishing expeditions (e.g., ABC Temp Agency needs Editors For Major publication) or someone at Monster apparently cut-and-pasting postings from company sites (e.g., MegaCorp needs fork-and-spoon operator) and those things sit up there forever. A three-month old job posting is not an oppportunity; it’s deliberate padding.
“There’s no labor market for struggling/out-of-work media types with 19th Century job skills.”
That’s called begging the question. How can editing be 19th century? Do you dispute that poor communication costs millions (possibly billions) a year for industry? “Gee, Marsha, what did you mean here?” “Isn’t it clear? You take the thing and you do stuff with it. I’m sorry I don’t have an, um, England degree for writing and junk, but you know what I, um, hang on, I’ve got to hold my BlackBerry.”
I’ve seen so many reports that were hopelessly filled with jargon, meandering sentences, incomprehensible passages, you name it. And it was the six-figure, Six Sigma jackoffs who always produced them. The same people who couldn’t refill a photocopier paper tray, and the same people who had “meetings” every day. What went on at the meetings? Fucked if I know. No one ever found out what went on at those meetings? A Roman orgy? Six hours of prayer?
“If I, on the other hand, were to take the trouble to update my resume and post it on Monster I bet I’d get recruiters with six-figure jobs hounding me endlessly.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh my God. Seriously, don’t you get lonely on your pedestal? Why not let us in on your credentials. And tell me how long it would take to find someone in China or India to do your, um, job for 1/10th your price.
And I agree about the enormous number of morons in the field. But really, all the rest of what you said makes me wonder if I can get some of whatever pills you’re taking.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I am furious that jaded dipshits like Angry Journalist #9597 exist. Reporters may end up at the Taco Bell but, at the end of the day, they can tell the difference between what matters and an advertisement.
Good luck on your lifetime of Kool Aid drinking.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
In the past nine weeks, I have written 90 stories at my paper. No wonder why I’m burned out!
November 30th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Save it! There are programs to correct grammer(sp). The problem with journalism now,is that nobody is willing to help you make your living. For example: could somebody call me if they shop online. Get off your ass and go on the field to meet people. If you don’t you have no real connections or sources.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
And today I gave notice on my apartment. I still do not have a job, so I have to move to someplace cheaper — a friend’s basement — in the New York area. My only hope is that I will find a job there before I run out of unemployment benefits (six months left on those). After that, I will simply starve to death I guess.
I hate the entire profession with all my heart. Every single fiber of my being.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I sometimes wonder if people read what they write. AJ 9942 writes “There are sources of news from all sides and all angles. People just need to start looking for them and stop complaining about what they’re getting.”
People, otherwise known as subscribers, are doing just that, which is the reason many newspapers are having financial problems right now, which in turn is the reason why there are so many angry journalist, that and someone keeps stealing their sandwhich.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
What is it about people in this business? The general personality type for reporters: asshole. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. Reporters=assholes. Editors=assholes. Ad team=assholes. Nobody at this paper can ever go, “Oh yeah. Sorry, my bad. I’ll take care of it.” No. NOBODY is ever wrong. Seriously, we’d all have a lot more respect for you if you could just buck up and take responsibility.
My editor can NEVER admit fault. Even when he’s the one who made a bad call (and there are many), he can never ever admit it. And what’s with these fucktards he keeps hiring? It’s like he believes that people with three names in their bylines can write better than the rest of us mortals.
Oh, and I’m sorry, but leggings aren’t appropriate workwear. Just FYI.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:41 am
The reason you don’t think monster.com is useful is because when you post a resume — no one cares. There’s no labor market for struggling/out-of-work media types with 19th Century job skills. If I, on the other hand, were to take the trouble to update my resume and post it on Monster I bet I’d get recruiters with six-figure jobs hounding me endlessly. The good news for you is that I used to be a journo like you (though not struggling). I left because newspapers are such terrible, awful places to work. So many high-paid idiots in high places. So much drivel in the news pages. Pages and pages of irrelevant crap on gardening, celebrities and of course biased news designed to support and protect our “historic” leader. The bad news for you is that it took six years and two master’s degrees in mathematical fields to get out — and that was when my paper paid for one of those graduate degrees (they’re not any more). I was lucky. I saw this end coming for them and the whole business about 2003 or so. When the last tuition check came in from my paper and posted in my checking account, I handed in my resignation and embraced an uncertain future that I knew could not possibly be worse than spending another day on that sinking ship. My paper didn’t give a damn I left after three years of paying my tuition. On the contrary, they were happy to drop a reporter’s salary from the books. Typical foresighted newspaper management. Morons. They probably paid for my second degree with all the time I spent at work doing homework on the first. I ate a lot of shit from those worthless management a-holes. I see that paper get worse every day (well, I never buy it anymore; just read it online for free). I feel bad for a couple folks there who need to support their families. But I can’t muster one iota of sympathy for those worthless morons running the show with their falsely inflated egos and hard-left uninformed political bias they substitute intellectualism. Thanks, losers! I really don’t understand how when the owners started swinging the employment axes, they didn’t start at the top. All those morons should have been fired first. That at least would have raised rank-and-file morale.
November 30th, 2009 at 5:32 am
re 9942 – “Three out of the four major dailies in my city are right-wing biased”. I am curious, in what American City are there three conservative newspapers and only one liberal newspaper?
November 29th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I love the name “dickweed.” It made me laugh!
November 29th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Two words: Sour grapes.
November 29th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
9934,
“Most Americans are patriotic, upper-working-class Christians.”
That’s why food stamps are now feeding 1 in 8 adults and 1 in 4 children. All those “upper-working-class Christians.” The only thing you got right is that most people in this country are Christian. Hat, meet floor.
Patriotism isn’t tied to your income bracket (except, possibly, in an inverse relationship. The richer you are, the more willing you are to send someone else’s — preferably brown — children off to fight and die to protect your right to keep taking the best of everything).
I’ll give you this, ‘34. You can at least write in complete sentences. But your arguments are completely divorced from reality or even simple logical consistency. How the hell could “most people” be in the upper bracket of the middle class? Doesn’t that violate mathematical law? And plain old commonsense?
But good luck with making the Internet more and more about the Almighty Dollar, the God you shove your nose up the ass of. You deserve each other.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am
9934,
“Add to that the crusty-panted Old Left types that own and edit the papers and what you get isn’t news any more.”
Man, you’re so full of shit your hair is brown. Every owner of every paper I ever worked for would have stepped ON any number of widows and orphans if it meant he could reach a dollar at the end of the trip. Every single publisher I’ve ever encountered was in it for himself or herself. Period. They all drove great cars, all had summer homes, all sent their kids to the best schools, and all acted like they really cared about their community. What a load of crap.
The same is true today. The whole “librul” thing is just an act to them. Look at Huffington Post. You think Ariana gives a single, solitary rat’s ass about the people she’s got slaving for her for pittance wages? Cut the crap. If she cared, she would pay them to begin with. I suspect her biggest lament is that she can’t simply have them shot when they complain.
You talk to the suits via e-mail? I bet they appreciate that. Even suits have gag reflexes.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Re 9935. Anyone can write, not everyone can write well. Like any trade, writing can be taught. However, great writing, whether it is fiction or nonfiction is usually the result of the author’s God given gift of talent. There is nothing wrong with being grateful if you have such a gift.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
#9934: Good for you, dickweed, but I have two problems with your argument.
1) Reporting on what people want to read and giving it to them all the time is irresponsible journalism. Granted, different publications have different types of audiences, and you must stay true to their needs. A line, however, must be drawn somewhere between what readers want to know and what they must know. You’re right in saying that we mustn’t push our personal agendas. On the other hand, it is befouling to play up stories on Bristol Palin’s sex life over allegations your military is connected to the torturing of innocents. We all know which of those stories people would read first, but is it right?
2) I don’t know what it’s like in other cities, conservative sources of news come in spades compared to liberal ones. Three out of the four major dailies in my city are right-wing biased. The left-wing paper? It dominates the market. In my area, I suppose it’s what people want. As far as network news, there’s an even split between the public lefty news channel and the private righty one.
There are sources of news from all sides and all angles. People just need to start looking for them and stop complaining about what they’re getting.
November 28th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
If you think things are bad now financially, just wait until we are all retired and have to live off a percentage of what we made when we worked :(