Journalists are proficient at many things: writing, editing, However, one thing journalists manage to incorporate into all of Journalists will, and do, find something to complain about in any Perhaps the No.1 thing journalists love to complain about is Journalists have been called masochists. And it is true. Who in Yes, journalists are justified in complaining. However, journalists manage to take complaining to a whole new No matter what, journalists are discontent. And that’s because
shorthand, drinking, smoking, cursing and living off the salary of a janitor.
the above, and everything else in life, flawlessly, is complaining.
situation. Perhaps it is part of their genetic makeup. Journalists after all
are bred to be skeptics and question everything. And in journalists do have a
lot to complain about to begin with.
journalism. The love/hate relationship of a journalist with their own
profession is complex, and few truly understand it.
their right mind would subject themselves to tirelessly interviewing subjects
who loathe them and often curse them and write five stories a day only to have
them ridiculed and torn apart by readers? All for pay that is less than the kid
at Taco Bell is making.
level. A journalist could get the greatest assignment in the world, say
reporting on the discovery of a goose that can lay golden
eggs. Journalists would still find something to complain about. Such as
the goose won’t make sample golden eggs for the media, it doesn’t make golden
eggs on command or the announcement of the eggs are embargoed.
they can never have enough information. Journalists will always complain. And
when it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have it any other way.
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is complaining genetic
I second that. I complain about the PIO who won’t give me the information I need for a story, the police officer in the city hall who lies about closed meetings that are actually public, the dentist who drops tools in my mouth while I’m getting a cavity filled, just to name a few.
How true! We do that all the time.
It’s great to read something that’s both enjoyable and provides pgrmaatidsc solutions.