The really long answer is, look, I also hate paying for news! A little bit less than I hate not being able to eat.
Exactly.
As a sidenote, I also tried to find that as the third gif, but for some reason it didn’t exist.
No problem! I hope you do well in whatever you choose.
“The Office” series finale is going on right now and I’m stuck in this god forsaken budget meeting that has no signs of ending before midnight.
SOMEONE PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY PLEASE.
Done and done. :)
Well the answer to your question really depends on the kind of journalist you want to be. If you want to be the kind of journalist that skates by on mediocre work, then no, it’s not hard.
But if you want to be a really good journalist, the kind that gets to write about hard news stories and wants to uncover great injustices, that’s a different answer. If you want to get into journalism because you want to help people make the decision before they walk into the voting booth, then you’ll wait two hours for the city council to come out of closed session just to make sure they’re not breaking the law. If you want to be a journalist because you believe in the First Amendment, then you’re going to work your tail off finding people of all different opinions to give your stories greater depth. If you want to be a journalist because you want to see your name as a byline in some of the nation’s greatest news publications, it’s going to take years of sacrifices. The work is busy, the hours are long, and the job is hard.
And worse, the people you’re doing all this hard work for don’t generally like you. We’re in a really precarious time for traditional journalists because everyone thinks they can do our job. Every Tom, Dick or Harry thinks he can go out and find the scoop by themselves with no training and virtually no clue. This leads to errors, which leads to public distrust.
And your pay is worth shit, which is seriously bad news if you have thousands of dollars worth of college debt to pay off from that fancy journalism school you insisted on attending.
But despite all the shit we take as journalists, it feels so damn good to see your name in a byline. It feels even better when you’re filing open records requests, or when you catch the mayor of a small town in a bald-faced lie. I’m convinced that the rush of adrenaline flowing through your veins on election night or at the scene of a crime can never be emulated by any other scenario or any other profession.
Is the work hard? Yes.
But is it worth it? Absolutely.
Well the answer to your question really depends on the kind of journalist you want to be. If you want to be the kind of journalist that skates by on mediocre work, then no, it’s not hard.
But if you want to be a really good journalist, the kind that gets to write about hard news stories and wants to uncover great injustices, that’s a different answer. If you want to get into journalism because you want to help people make the decision before they walk into the voting booth, then you’ll wait two hours for the city council to come out of closed session just to make sure they’re not breaking the law. If you want to be a journalist because you believe in the First Amendment, then you’re going to work your tail off finding people of all different opinions to give your stories greater depth. If you want to be a journalist because you want to see your name as a byline in some of the nation’s greatest news publications, it’s going to take years of sacrifices. The work is busy, the hours are long, and the job is hard.
And worse, the people you’re doing all this hard work for don’t generally like you. We’re in a really precarious time for traditional journalists because everyone thinks they can do our job. Every Tom, Dick or Harry thinks he can go out and find the scoop by themselves with no training and virtually no clue. This leads to errors, which leads to public distrust.
And your pay is worth shit, which is seriously bad news if you have thousands of dollars worth of college debt to pay off from that fancy journalism school you insisted on attending.
But despite all the shit we take as journalists, it feels so damn good to see your name in a byline. It feels even better when you’re filing open records requests, or when you catch the mayor of a small town in a bald-faced lie. I’m convinced that the rush of adrenaline flowing through your veins on election night or at the scene of a crime can never be emulated by any other scenario or any other profession.
Is the work hard? Yes.
But is it worth it? Absolutely.
Seriously, guyz. This just now happened and I am still in shock.
