Why are you angry today?
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10,095 Responses to “Why are you angry today?”
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I hate it when the ad reps think they’re so much fucking better than the writers and that we need to be eternally grateful to them for keeping our paper afloat…..
December 4th, 2009 at 11:01 am
It doesn’t feel as good to hit “vent” when it takes a while for my vent to show up here : ( I want instant gratification!!!
December 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I would rather shovel poop than work on this damn political story for another day. I am tired of people hanging up on me or talking down to me because I’m writing about something controversial. I also am extremely tired of hearing local pols say they don’t want to talk to me because they weren’t endorsed by my publication in local elections. Grow the fuck up!
December 4th, 2009 at 7:46 am
If you were not angry before, this should do it.
At the Dallas News, a New “Bold Strategy”: Section Editors reporting to Sales Managers.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/12/at_the_dallas_news_the_latest.php
The question is, will journalist go along with this plan?
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Pay cut.
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Who will be the 10,000th angry journalist? Me? I hope so.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:40 am
I used to come home from work everyday and work out.
Now, because my workload has increased significantly, I have no time to work out, and I am now overweight :(
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 am
For anybody in the Piedmont area of NC: http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1129038
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:32 am
My paper cares more about pagination quality than actual story quality. We have to spend much of the day paginating instead of writing and interviewing people at my paper.
That frustrates me!
There are so many good stories to write about in this city……but we care more about whether there is the right amount of white space on the page or whether all the columns are aligned.
If I wanted to do this pagination crap, I would have gotten a degree in graphic design instead.
The only thing that has kept me in this profession has been my love of writing…….and this is despite the long hours and low pay…..Now…..I have no reason to stay!
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 am
I’m angry, frustrated and pissed off by the generalizations people make about journalists.
Do people even understand what they mean when they blame “the media”?
Apparently, I sit in a newsroom all day and think of the ways I am going to spin my message and trick my readers.
I have no ethics. I have no morals. I got in this professor to push my agenda.
Right.
Because that’s what they teach us in journalism school! They don’t focus on the ethics of the profession i.e. no one cares about your opinion so save it for the bar AFTER your story is finished.
Yes, everyone has a bias. Maybe in the future, all journalists will be robots, and everything will be super fine and dandy.
Until then, though, you’re stuck with us, the apparently feeble-minded imbeciles that we are.
Sarcasm off right — now.
I started in journalism because I love to write, and I love to help people. As cliché (yes, I’m writing on a Mac, so therefore I can easily put that little dash above the e) as that might sound, here I am.
I will graduate in nine days. And then I will enter the real world, working at a community newspaper. And I am so ridiculously excited that I am one of the lucky journalism grads with a job out of graduation. I am happy that I don’t have to go forth with my degree in hand, only to make burgers or sell my soul for PR (I view those things as equally exciting and stimulating).
I am so, so happy that I have the wonderful opportunity to continue to tell people’s stories, serve as a watchdog for aforementioned people and work to do what’s right, via words.
So, next time you decide to blame “the media,” think about what you’re really saying. Who are you blaming? And why do you assume the rest of us in “the media” aren’t equally as pissed that talking heads on the national networks are, in the public’s eyes, representing the rest of us who slave away for about 10 percent of what those people make to give their opinions on a regular basis? And why do you assume that the actual journalists who work for those networks aren’t just as mad as well?
And that brings us to my, your and everyone who gives a damn about this profession’s question — what is anyone doing about it? That’s second on my list of what I’m pissed off about, but we’ll save that for another rant for another day.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I wrote an article about a major local employer closing … apparently. At least, I would guess that the story is about that employer (1,900 employees)closing, based on the headline that said “End is nearer for _____.”
Too bad the government isn’t shutting down that particular installation. Other than the fact it’s completely inaccurate fearmongering, it’s a good headline.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Things will change.The people are tired of tabloid journalism.You know,the kind that lacks a value for another persons life,and lacks the value for truth.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:00 pm
http://www.slate.com/id/2237107/
If this is where the industry is headed, COUNT ME OUT.
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I’m angry because my workload is constantly increasing, but my salary- big surprise, has remained at the same sub-poverty rate for the past several years.
I’m angry because I had to get up before sunrise to cover a rotary club meeting, only to have it start an hour late.
I’m angry because I’m on salary, and am expected to work seven days per week.
And I’m angry because I was forced to forebear on my student loans yet again, but Sallie Mae won’t let me do so without penalty, despite the fact that I barely make a living wage.
Whew! Just released the poisons there!
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Getting my degree in journalism has so far thus proved to be the worst decision of my life.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I’m at my wits’ end with publishers who do not understand layout. They think it’s so easy to just plop an extra ad in and move things around, or that changes they request to the cover can impact 4 different sections within the publication because the stories jump. There is no magic wand for this. If you do not understand the basics of putting a publication together, you don’t deserve to be a publisher.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
9949…I’d rather be one of the morons you rant about than a self serving douche-bag like yourself.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Why is the coffee in this office cheap, stomach-turning crap?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 am
I saw the other day that Folio is doing a seminar for publishers to show them how other publishers are increasing the salaries of their editors to reflect the many different tasks they’re being asked to take on. What is a polite way to suggest that my publisher attend the seminar?
December 1st, 2009 at 11:53 pm
#9955: At the end of the day, they can also spot hoary cliches.