Posted on 10/31/2022 7:19:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dear conscientious writers and would-be writers: This is what you get with your Journalism degree, i.e., a lifetime membership to the “pravda club.” And it’s really a CLUB, too! To beat people with!
If you value your craft as a writer, GO GALT on the writing establishment. Make your living in another profession and write like h3ll in your spare hours.
Here’s a fun visualization for anyone entertaining trying to “work in journalism” - Even if you are a straight-up reporter and have no interest in so-called creative or imaginative writing, you will have written something “from the heart” at some point in your life, an expression of belief or passion, a fantasy, poetry, or what-have-you.
Holding that in mind - haha, it might already be a little painful, right? because not very good but it was YOU - try to remember how offended and hurt you were when someone read this passionate piece and mocked it, tried to “fix” it, or outright plagiarized it.
Sure, that’s all part of being a writer, is it not? Letting the experts crap all over your stuff, letting everybody “fix” it and criticize it and so on. But you never forget the initial shock of seeing someone edit your best work and turn it into a slovenly, meaningless, miasma of words.
Okay, now that you’re experiencing that, extend that feeling of hurt and offense - that will never quite go away - into the future and seeing these editors cut into your work until you can’t recognize it, or force you to eliminate meaning from it, or penalize you for being too truthful, or simply appropriate whatever is good about it and say that they did it.
Think of how hard it will be in the future to place any kind of value on craft or truthfulness, when you think back to your initial days of writing and how proud and forceful you were compared to the dead-eyed lackey of the Left you’ll eventually (or quickly!) turn into.
It’s not worth it. Go Galt on the writing establishment and be a free man or woman. You will actually gain influence as a writer by staying out of the meat grinder.
Also, everyone I ever knew who wanted to be a writer - esp to go into journalism - turned into a first-class a$$hole after a short time. At first the person would be saying things about how hateful all the other writers are, then s/he either goes nuts or turns into a first-class a$$hole him/herself. It never fails. (And then they’re a first-class a$$hole who shouts “BUY MY BOOK” at you until you become anti-book.)
BTW, in addition, notice how the NYT has kept this off the front page and below thee fold. They now more than they are reporting.
“It’s so crucial...”
Passive voice. Who taught him to write?
One Guy asks, why is it so crucial?
When the duty to advance the duly designated narrative is mixed into the air budding fake news journos breathe, the pumpkin spice lattes they drink, the whatever hip food it is that they eat, they need not even think or be awake to know that that is what they are being paid to do.
Crucial for consumers of news? The consumers of fake news are like the chronically cheated-upon spouse—”Lie to me, pretend that you love me.” They are using the so-called mainstream media news to learn what the lie of the day is. The last thing they are looking for is the truth.
Those who know that employees of any large, “mainstream”, corporate news organizations never, ever spend more than a second and a half listening to or watching those sources. Crucial? Once again, these kinds of people, who never settle, and are only interested in the truth, have long since left these organizations behind, including financially.
The only people left are those whose cognition is so damaged from the sinful lives they lead that they generally wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the truth and a lie, even if this author went to every length possible to explain the difference. “Crucial” for them = all base forms of entertainment and satisfaction.
The only difference between a Science Fiction writer and a journalist is that the science fiction writer is obliged to stay within the realm of possibility...........
Right? LOL
Science fiction writers get called on the carpet by their fans for not sticking to the scientifically plausible. Journalists, on the other hand....
Why hasn’t NANZI flown to her injured husband’s side in her flying carbon footprint?
Sorry for the thinko:
Those who know that employees of any large, “mainstream”, corporate news organizations ***are inveterate, paid liars***...
MSM:
If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen...............
Yep, they wouldn’t be afraid to ask questions that need to be asked if they hadn’t allowed themselves to be stooges to the left for years.
Sorry for the thinko:
Those who know that employees of any large, “mainstream”, corporate news organizations ***are inveterate, paid liars***...
That ‘girl ‘ looks familiar......................
No one could possibly believe this even from what few facts have been released, but the lying media will continue to trumpet this false narrative.
As I wrote above, tee NYT has stayed out of this because they know what’s happening. If this was a real story of a (D) getting the crap beat out of him it would front page above the fold story and it’s not.
🤦♀️🤷♀️🤷♂️🤦♂️😉..........................................
It will fade into the sunset
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