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DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« on: November 04, 2013, 10:40:36 PM »
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Can a 'Country Mouse" ever really move back to the City...and get a "real job"?

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Been an eye opening day for me and I am not sure how to deal with it...so here I am, speaking to my anonymous group pf friends that I have cultivated for the past few years...

See, all this time I have identified myself as a Journalist - with big ideas and thoughts about ethics, integrity and the recent shield laws vs. whistle-blowers. That much is true, I am really invested personally in journalistic integrity and the whole idea of breaking big stories and speaking truth to power.
But the reality is that I have been living in a small town for the past 20 years and I grew up here as a college student and the largest publication I ever worked for maybe had 15-20K circulation at its peak...
Sure, I covered City Council issues and labor disputes, current events, etc...but I covered features a lot more.
I've been blogging and posting so much over the past few years maybe I have become too conversational in my tone. I recall my Mg Ed when I was in my late 20s giving me a lecture for hugging a distraught wife of a drowning victim as she relayed info to me about the obituary... "that was unprofessional" he said. I told him if "professional" meant giving up being HUMAN -I'd gladly be UN professional. My tone in writing has always been more conversational than literary, so there's that.

So I am finally finishing my BA in JRN/COM and feeling really good because I have experience the younger people in my classes do not. I am excelling in my grades, discussions, etc. I have done the salary research and figured I was limiting myself to thinking I would only be worth a 30K/year job with the local rag, and raised my hopes to a senior reporter position, and maybe even moving off this mountain and re-entering the mainstream...

I send my resume and cover letter to a colleague who is my senior by about 20 years. He was the old grizzled reporter who sat next to me in the newsroom as a rookie, and has remained a friend and mentor over the years... He tells me my letter is "too girly" and unprofessional. Thank god he cleaned it up, but no I am doubting ALL my writing, wondering if I can even think of competing in the big nasty wold out there. Maybe it is a good thing to stay in the little fishpond, even if the pay sucks


FirstLight, you're no Woodward or Bernstein. You're not even Nads.


I have to ask - what about newspapers, even ones that pretty much only serve to hold pizza coupons, appeals to DUmmies so much? If I've learned anything about them in 10 years, they have weird
obsessions with:

Acoustic guitars
Newspapers
Trains

WTF?
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2013, 11:22:28 PM »
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So I am finally finishing my BA in JRN/COM

Maybe First light can move in next to Lady FreeDUmb in the washes outside Tuscon.  Or join Franks cousin on the SD fire beat.  Seriously why do most universities have this as a degree.
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2013, 06:45:15 AM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on November 04, 2013, 10:40:36 PM

FirstLight, you're no Woodward or Bernstein. You're not even Nads.


I have to ask - what about newspapers, even ones that pretty much only serve to hold pizza coupons, appeals to DUmmies so much? If I've learned anything about them in 10 years, they have weird
obsessions with:

Acoustic guitars
Newspapers
Trains

WTF?
Easy, old boy.  With newspapers, you can't see the reader laughing at you.
Case in point, below.
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See, all this time I have identified myself as a Journalist - with big ideas and thoughts about ethics, integrity and the recent shield laws vs. whistle-blowers. That much is true, I am really invested personally in journalistic integrity and the whole idea of breaking big stories and speaking truth to power.
Your having a bad day if that ^^^^^doesn't make you laugh.  :lmao:
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2013, 10:41:52 AM »
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...and speaking truth to power.

Translated: I am a barking moonbat.
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2013, 11:23:36 AM »
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Can a 'Country Mouse" ever really move back to the City...and get a "real job"?
Yes! Move to San Diego and apply to serve as an intern under nutcase nadin on Crazy Miriam's blog.

You can write articles on exploding windmill blades, grass fires, and cancer-causing solar panels.

In no time, you'll be an award-wining journo, too.

And your salary will be exactly the same as all the trained journos in Crazy Miriam's stable of talent.
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2013, 11:31:47 AM »
I hope he has a secondary education in something else.   :popcorn:
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2013, 11:36:47 AM »
Quote from: Skul on November 05, 2013, 06:45:15 AM
Easy, old boy.  With newspapers, you can't see the reader laughing at you.

     Holy crap. I had not thought of that. ^5 for the explanation.
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2013, 12:05:03 PM »
Quote from: sharkhawk on November 04, 2013, 11:22:28 PM
Maybe First light can move in next to Lady FreeDUmb in the washes outside Tuscon.  Or join Franks cousin on the SD fire beat.  Seriously why do most universities have this as a degree.

Simple. First, the university fees get laundered to the local OFA/Dem party treasury, and the only jobs for "journalists" are Dem Party Press Office opinionists.
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Re: DUmmy reporter has lower circ than the Pennysaver; has high self-opinion
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2013, 12:56:28 PM »
I have a degree in Broadcast Journalism but I taught myself technical writing so I could actually earn a living . . .  :wink:
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