Editors Poll: Reader Credibility At All-Time Low
Hank Stuever slam-dunks them: Everything's Not Always About You
Jack Shafer shows them the front door: Why I Don't Trust Readers
I tried to smother them with shit: The Artful Doubter
Jack Shafer shows them the front door: Why I Don't Trust Readers
I tried to smother them with shit: The Artful Doubter
Comments:
I seriously hope you're getting a cut of Shafer's paycheck. You beat him by 6 weeks on nearly the same words.
Do you know what's wrong with journalism, actually? That a large portion of bright, opinionated minds do virtually anything else with their time to make their scratch because writing is poorly valued and breaking in is nothing short of a lifetime's quest. It's easier to get a book printed than it is to get in a newspaper or magazine. This is why a blogger can make intelligent comments and collect a measly $0.85 from AdSense (wait, sorry... not only do you lack AdSense, but you're also down for the $15 per month hosting fee) and never get meaningfully published, while blowhards get paid for writing on a weekly basis and no one seems to care unless one of them slips up and says something racist/sexist/anti-Semitic.
Wait, never mind. I'm not supposed to tip off anyone on the state of publishing. I need to first figure out how I'm going to become filthy stinking rich from publishing. Then I can discuss all I want how the commercial economics and writing used to be bad. Hah.
Though, you can never go wrong doubting the stupidity, fallibility, and fart-headedness of the American people, I have to side with him Shafer when he writes, "We're reporters, for goodness sake, not priests..." (Not the least of all because their alcoholism is not contingent on sinners' lack of thirst.) There's too much tongue waggling about them crossing some lines, though some clearly do, that it constrains them from being people, let alone people willing to take a chance at something where chance-taking should be the whole fucking point, along with the much-missed but groovy fedora. The institution is getting so bloated with regulations, overseers, politeness, ombusdsman, Christianity, and bloggers that it's a wonder anyone would dare write at all. Only people like our dear Krucoff and Spiers, people with no oversight committees and no readership, can say anything without the fear of retribution. God knows if they're right or not though -- whatever they're points are, respectively.
kru: your email's bouncing. plz fix, thx.
brian - what email address is bouncing?? god forbid someone's trying to get a hold of me for an interview and they cant get through!
anon - do i have a point? beats me, but i don't need one. i don't and shouldn't get paid for writing this garbage. dammit, for the last time, this is all community theater!!
Of course I realize it's "community theatre" -- though I once saw a production of "Pippin" at a dinner theatre in Westchester that was so redoubtable it would redefine your idea of what community theatre can be. But to say you don't have a point seems unlikely -- even it it's only to cause turmoil in staid bloggerdom.
"community theater"
hahaha
Here in New York, community theater is when some vagrant-looking guy from the East Village gets 20 people to watch him in his basement while he takes a shit on his own hands, flings half of it against a wall in the pattern of a cross, and the other half at the audience.
I totally think you should put that in your "About" page here.
(email's working again; it was probably my provider, not yours)
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