Angry Journalists vent their frustrations at the world

[katty]

Angry journalists vent their frustrations to the world

Apr 2 09:55 AM US/Eastern
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They're angry at their demanding editors. They're angry about the mushrooming workload in shrinking newsrooms. They're even angry about other angry journalists.
But these angry journalists are happy they can now vent their frustrations to the rest of the world, courtesy of angryjournalist.com, a sort of online complaint board allowing ink-stained wretches to gripe anonymously.

Ironically, their anger is partly fueled by the Internet, which has forced newspapers and television networks to reinvent themselves with painful consequences for their staffs.

There's the veterans complaining about newsrooms stretched thin by executives requiring reporters to produce stories for old and new media.

[Warpy]

1. Tough shit. If most of them had done their JOBS

maybe they'd still be selling newspapers and the audience for televised news wouldn't be declining.

The Fourth Estate simply got too cozy with power and let the internet take over its function.

Even if we have to go back to posting handbills on light poles, we the people will find a way to get information out there. A lapdog press needs to realize it's sowing the seeds of its own destruction when it doesn't.

[katty]

2. amen!

[Two Americas]

4. blaming the workers?

Shouldn't we be focusing our rage at management?

[shireen]

5. i agree ... it's management scum that's mostly at fault

the journalists in the trenches, the real investigative reporters who do good work for newspapers and tv stations across the country, are swimming upstream against increasingly powerful currents that are steering them towards air-head infotainment and politically-opportunistic news-reporting. I keep an eye on science journalism, and there's been a lot of dismay in that community, in recent years, as they've watched their best science journalists laid-off due to budget cuts in newsrooms. These people are GOOD, major award-winners in their profession, and it infuriates me that talent like that is being thrown out.

The so-called "journalists" who deserve our wrath are the pompous self-important political ass-kissers with egos the size of giant gas planets. The Tim Russerts. The Judith Millers. The Chris Matthews.

Journalism is a noble profession, the only one that was specifically referenced in the Constitution, and a critical part of our democracy.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Those political parasites masquerading as journalists are a disgrace to their claimed profession.

[Two Americas]

6. thanks

Most real journalists are out of work or doing something else.

I am discouraged to see workers and the general public blamed for our social problems by so many Democrats.

[DRoseDARs]

8. Just following orders?

Where have we heard that defense before... :shrug:

[Warpy]

9. I blame the lot of them

from the corporate board rooms on down to the reporters who sit at their computers and wait for press releases to drop into their laps or the phone to ring.

I know too many real journalists who quit in disgust and are now reporting on the net while they edit books and magazines for money to live on.

[Donnachaidh]

3. aww - the president's personal poodles are whining -- boo freaking hoo

:hurts: :nopity:

[tama]

7. Whores bitching about pimps

Poor analogy of course, not intended to insult whores making a honest buck.