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are certain iconic images that simply can’t be separated from some professions.
= judge. Tractor = farmer. Guitar = musician. Rabbit = magician. Jim Beam =
NASCAR driver.
journalists, their legacy will forever be encapsulated in the timeless, the
classic – the fedora. It is the ideal hat of the middle class or the common man
that the journalist breaks his back for every day.
and stylish, the fedora was initially a convenient placeholder for press passes. But over the years it devolved evolved
into a representation of the hard-working journalist braving the elements to
report the news while looking quite stylish.
a nobleman in a top hat, journalists can always be spotted chomping on the butt
of a cigarette below the dark brim of their well worn fedora.
fact: Seven out of 10 journalists copulate while wearing their fedoras.
journalists themselves, nowadays fedoras are slowly fading from the newsroom,
instead turning up on effeminate pop stars. However, journalists still wear
fedoras, you just have to know which empty desk covered in dusty boxes to look
behind.
curmudgeon cursing at the computer while punching the keyboard with two
fingers, fedora slightly askew and whiskey seeping from the pores. This
journalist may not know a blog from a RSS feed, but he makes that fedora look
damn good.
Pictured is veteran newsman Mike Nemeth of Salinas, Calif., shot by famed photojournalist Scott MacDonald. Check out more of his work at www.scottmacdonaldphotography.com.
Are you a journalist who doesn’t leave the house without your fedora? Send us your picture – StuffJournalistsLike@Gmail.com
Here’s North Carolina reporter Lindell Kay rocking not only a fedora but also a Hawaiian shirt at a murder scene.
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Love the article, but it gives me a dilemma as a woman.
I am now looking to invest in a fedora. I shall also consider the copulating angle…
Sadly enough, the reporter of the other newspaper/competition wears a fedora. Everyone makes fun of him behind his back.
When I was a reporter a couple years ago, I dressed up in a trench coat and fedora for Halloween, but I can’t really pull off a fedora casually…
My wife, who gave me a really fine fedora for Christmas a few years ago, sent me this link.
I am not one of those seven out of 10. Perhaps I will rectify that.
Here’s a video of the then Australian Prime Minister criticising 2010 Australian Young Journalist of the Year in regards to the wearing of her Fedora: http://goo.gl/LHfxf. Total classic!