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A chronicle of the lame, the annoying and the downright nutty things a modern-day journalist endures.
@frustratedjurno
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About Me
- Frustrated Journalist
- I'm a mid-level editor at a daily newspaper and also have spent plenty of time as a reporter. Like many journalists these days, I grow continually frustrated with the industry, its lack of innovation, its timidness, its desire to hold on to tradition even as the tradition is playing a large role in the industry's undoing. But in general, I like what I do and don't really know if I could do anything else.
Chime in from an ex-newspaper press man...I was in the industry for 30 plus years and know a lot of journalists. What see in newsrooms is in fighting with the labor unions and elitist attitudes. Cilques with in the ranks, massive layoffs that have created thousands of job losses and the media looks the other way. Their "unbiased reporting of the president and his actions further frusterates the readers. The media has taken the first step to the President's health plan and had a Frontal "Obotomy". They agree with everything the Pres. says afraid of any backlash if they defy the Pres or roport the REAL news. Get back to the basics and what you saw when you first got the journalism bug.
ReplyDeleteIt's frustrating how leaving the newspaper business gives you very little to offer any other industry.
ReplyDeleteNot very many jobs out there outside of newspapers for people who can report, paginate, edit or be generally nosy.
I've actually seen job advertisements that specifically discourage reporters and editors from applying.
"No journalists, Irish."