Number 15 was a favorite past time for me until recently when I moved into the sports department. Ah well, some day I'll return to a council meeting I'm sure.
Enjoy the list, and then check out the website for more awesome stuff like it.
- Written a 15-inch story in 30 minutes
- Corrected a loved one’s grammar in a greeting card
- Replaced one of the major food groups with coffee
- Own your own police scanner
- Eat in your car more often than you do at a table
- Gotten fired/laid off for no good reason
- Forgotten what it’s like to have the weekend off
- Can no longer read a newspaper without scanning for typos and errors
- Learned that being told to “fuck off “ and “go to hell” is part of the job
- Woke in a cold sweat thinking you forgot to change the date on A1
- Spend your down time coming up with the perfect lede
- Slept in your car and not because you were too drunk to drive home
- Found that fine line between harassment and persistence
- If you needed bail, the first person you would call would be your editor
- You analyze city council meetings the way sportscasters break down Monday night football
- You think it’s normal to work 16 hours a day for 8 hours pay
- Have conducted a phone interview while completely naked
- Can write an entire interview on a cocktail napkin
- Threatened to quit over an editorial decision
- You couldn’t imagine doing anything else
I may not be a journalist, but 2, 7 and 8 apply to me for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, great list, these are the kinds of things I imagine Woodward and Bernstein went through.
Well your a psuedo journo. You have been published in the paper a few times now.
ReplyDeletePseudo Journo, what Brian Canham would use as an alias if he went into journalism.
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