i was just looking at angryjournalist.com.
i'm not saying this is definitely written by someone in my newsroom, but it really sounds like the place where i work. right down to the mongoloid editor and piece of crap web site.
Angry Journalist #865:
I’m angry because I got a “Dear Employee” letter this year from company headquarters saying last year was bad, and while they think this year will be better, we should keep our fingers crossed. And in the meantime, they really value ‘the quality of the work I’ve done” — even though they don’t acknowledge knowing my name, my job title, or the kind of work I do for them.
I’m angry because my city editor’s eyes glaze over when I tell her about any hard news story I am working on and that even though I’m close to finishing a several month-long investigative piece she wants the priority to be filling an advertising tab with fluff. I’m angry because she makes absolutely no decisions on anything, and watches the tv as often as possible.
I’m angry because there are no conversations in the newsroom about quality — but plenty about quantity of bylines. And because an editor just read all the studies that say that writing shorter is the key to retaining readers and because of that, at the first pitch of a story, he asks if eveything can be separated into three-part series.
I’m angry that our Web site is controlled by the advertising department and that no one in a leadership position understands the thing called the Internet.
And lastly, I’m angry because our newspaper is dying and our leaders are more concerned with rules that say we can’t wear jeans to work, eat at our desks or tape anything on the file cabinets.
Devtron Z "hillbilly hippie" Rabid
- 18 years, 27 days ago
