Angry journalists
I have not posted on this site — I just was told about it minutes ago — but Angry Journalist may be the best Web site ever. (I’m also not particularly angry, although many of their complaints ring true with me — about other papers, obviously.)
It may not be safe for work, especially if you work in a newsroom and your boss catches you posting there.
The reason for the site’s creation is outlined here:
And that led to the third reason why I wanted to create AngryJournalist.com. I thought, “maybe if it became big enough, executives at media companies would take note and realize how frustrated their employees actually are in the industry and do something to change it.�
The site is interesting, and several recurrent themes emerge when reading the posts, especially a clash of generations, with older, more establishment journalists seeing the new crop not understanding there’s a value in the way things have been done in the past, and newer and (typically) younger journalists seeing the old guard as just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic “because that’s how we’ve always done things.”
Anyway, pretty cool site.
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Whoooah! There is a lot of bile out there.
I can see faint 2″ ropes of truth behind the anger.
Keep up the struggle to do things right. You will
not win all that often but your maintain a sense of
your own integrity and every now and then you have a
success that makes it seem all worthwhile.
(That deluded thinking may not last but it is better
than being the slow-thinking, hide-bound dick that most
of these writers are referring to. Don’t ask me why
I am so familiar with these patterns……
Comment by Mozzbi — February 20, 2008 @ 13:48