That was pretty funny, will show it to a cousin who wants a
journalism career.
A. Citizen
Yeah, and I’m gonna be rich someday.
Noni Mausa
100% true, I can attest to that. Local journos don’t get half the respect they deserve, for what they put up with just to do their jobs. And the pay’s nothing to warble about, either.
Still, I consider it one of the best jobs in the world, at least in countries where it’s non-lethal. What other job allows you to casually call up the Governor General, a hospital head of gerontology, and a retired heavyweight champion, all on the same day, for the same story? What other job requires constant learning and research, and the mental juggling of hundreds of facts and previous experiences? What other job has you taking a raw handful of facts and deciding what form the resulting story will take? ‘Cos it’s not the editor, usually it’s just you and your memories and the scrabbled notes in your special shorthand.*
It’s just the best, which is probably why people still do it despite the accurate drawbacks listed in the video.
Noni
*They want my sources? they can have my notes — with few exceptions only I and God know what I have written down. Sometimes only God.
Norman
Goodness, it seems that I read something over at AB this morning that sounds like the guy in the “I want to be a journalist” cut. Another pearl from Noni.
matthew slaughter
“What other job allows you to casually call up the Governor General, a hospital head of gerontology, and a retired heavyweight champion, all on the same day, for the same story? What other job requires constant learning and research, and the mental juggling of hundreds of facts and previous experiences?”
hedge fund manager?
MARILYN the Dinosaur
I love the New York Times and I like reading the paper. Online is not the same as holding it in your hands!
Haha… great stuff. Thanks…
That was pretty funny, will show it to a cousin who wants a
journalism career.
Yeah, and I’m gonna be rich someday.
100% true, I can attest to that. Local journos don’t get half the respect they deserve, for what they put up with just to do their jobs. And the pay’s nothing to warble about, either.
Still, I consider it one of the best jobs in the world, at least in countries where it’s non-lethal. What other job allows you to casually call up the Governor General, a hospital head of gerontology, and a retired heavyweight champion, all on the same day, for the same story? What other job requires constant learning and research, and the mental juggling of hundreds of facts and previous experiences? What other job has you taking a raw handful of facts and deciding what form the resulting story will take? ‘Cos it’s not the editor, usually it’s just you and your memories and the scrabbled notes in your special shorthand.*
It’s just the best, which is probably why people still do it despite the accurate drawbacks listed in the video.
Noni
*They want my sources? they can have my notes — with few exceptions only I and God know what I have written down. Sometimes only God.
Goodness, it seems that I read something over at AB this morning that sounds like the guy in the “I want to be a journalist” cut. Another pearl from Noni.
“What other job allows you to casually call up the Governor General, a hospital head of gerontology, and a retired heavyweight champion, all on the same day, for the same story? What other job requires constant learning and research, and the mental juggling of hundreds of facts and previous experiences?”
hedge fund manager?
I love the New York Times and I like reading the paper. Online is not the same as holding it in your hands!