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    Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs

    What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?

    Edit Now. Pay Later Never.

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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    In reply to Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs
    Other magazines should adopt this Billboard model. If I send a check to Vogue, someone can write how fabu I look. Seriously, what I'm not clear about from your story is whether this is being done by edit or is a concoction of marketing and sales. If the reviews are being done by regular edit people or freelancers whom edit regularly uses, that sound you hear is not music: it's the church/state wall blowing up. #journalismism
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/03/09

    In reply to Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs
    I smell fraud, since the Billboard position doesn't mention Quaaludes, Jack Daniels or 14-year-old nymphets using Road Names featuring "i"s with hearts dotting them. #journalismism
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    11/03/09

    In reply to Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs
    I like how Gawker's image of heaven is an escalator to mold spores.

    Edit: Journalism heaven, that is. I thought it was a walkup apartment with a king-sized murphy bed
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    Image of westward ho westward ho
    11/03/09

    @TableNein: Mold spores? Or Christmas vortex?!? #journalismism
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Are
    You
    Kidding
    Me?

    I'd kill for that job. I'm serious. What an incredible job that must be. Think of the stories!

    Sure, it'll kill your soul. But right now, I'm a gossip blogger. Soul-killing without the possibility of being actually important. #journalismism
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/21/09

    @raincoaster: You are assuming that the government killing people is considered important in Texas. Trust me...to most, it's not. #journalismism
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    10/22/09

    @Atilla the Bun: But you wouldn't be writing FOR Texans. Can they even read? #journalismism
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/22/09

    @raincoaster: Hey now, I'm a Texan. And yes, some of us can read. But I wouldn't be surprised if executions in Texas received more news coverage out of state. Executions happen so frequently here, but they rarely make the front page. Considering that the majority in Texas consider executions such a triumph of justice, that is a shame.
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    Image of hot_kachina hot_kachina
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    The Texecutions beat - it's what you make of it! Steve Blow, longtime columnist for The Dallas Morning News, has long had a series listing what the condemned man's last meal was. In fact, when there was some loud opposition about the lack of taste (see what I did there?) the subject was dropped, only to be swiftly renewed after even more people complained that it was legitimate news.

    Fascinating stuff. Just one example: [www.dallasnews.com]
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/21/09


    @hot_kachina: An artist named James Reynolds did an interesting project, "Last Suppers"--recreating + photographing the last meal choices of Death Row inmates. It's both touching and creepy:

    [www.jwgreynolds.co.uk] #journalismism
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    Image of dontread dontread
    10/21/09

    @snugbug: Thanks for this. This is very powerful imagery. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @dontread: Yes. It's significant art, I think. Because it wordlessly and elegantly challenges our knee-jerk reactions to people on Death Row. It's so hard to gleefully wish them dead when you see that their last wish was for fried chicken or a pack of gum. It humanizes them all over again. It's nibble-worthy food for thought. #journalismism
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    Image of dontread dontread
    10/21/09

    @snugbug: And always on institution-orange plates. Orange is my favorite colour! I never thought of it as background for a pastiche of death, gazing into the abyss. Sad. But on the other hand, you have the cutest expressions -- "nibble-worthy" indeed! #journalismism
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/21/09

    @dontread: And Shane Koyzcan, multiple-time poetry Grand Slam champ, has an amazing piece about having a drink at 10am with the chef who prepared the condemned man's last meal. He'd just prepared the meal for the man who killed his (the chef's) brother. #journalismism
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/21/09

    @snugbug: I agree. I've honestly cried reading these lists of last meals before. Yeah, maybe that's taking the bleeding-heart liberal thing too far, but I've met people on death row before. And no doubt most of them are awful people, but they are still human beings and knowing that they want their last meal to be, say, an ice-cream sundae is just heartbreaking to me. #journalismism
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    I could not believe that while Texas continues to execute people, some papers there do not run anything -- staff or wires -- when it does. Whether people favor or oppose the death penalty, readers should know what the state is doing in their name.
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Whoever keeps getting sent to write special reports on Detroit. Trying to draw some sort of uplifting moral conclusion is so awful that they all just end up saying "Hey, at least the Red Wings are usually pretty good!" #journalismism
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    Image of ZiggyStardust ZiggyStardust
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Norm MacDonald once said the worst job in America wass "assistant crackwhore." The newsroom equivalent has to do with being on the copydesk, obviously... #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @ZiggyStardust: Also, the correct answer could be "Andrew Belonsky." #journalismism
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    10/23/09

    @ZiggyStardust: He had it pretty good until that whole thing with Natasha. #journalismism
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Not a beat, really, but my ex once applied for a job "editing" rubber stamps. Like, those stamps people have made so they don't have to write the same thing over and over again? Yeah. Somebody edits those. #journalismism
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    I'm going with whoever edits the gangly meanderings that take place in the local Pennysaver. Because I can't see anything more inclined to make someone want to shoot themselves, than listing all the tractor pulls, great deals on grandma's end table with the legs sawed off, or announcing the various ways people spend their free time, like at elementary school bake offs, bake sales, cub scouts, holiday madrigals, or of course, Karaoke night/Game night/Bingo at Manalapan Lutheran. #journalismism
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/21/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Actually, I know a guy who does that. He does it at a dive bar, drinking cheap draft, and he has a blast reading them out to the old, mostly deaf regulars there. They have no idea he's actually working. #journalismism
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    I'm sure CQ or The Hill has someone who covers the capitol hill page program. #journalismism
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    Image of Meiyou Wenti Meiyou Wenti
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Can it get any worse than having to report on watching the execution of another human being? #journalismism
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    10/23/09

    @Meiyou Wenti: I've done about ten years of interviewing indie rock bands. So... yes. #journalismism
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    Image of contains_hot_liquid contains_hot_liquid
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Santa Cruz city council meetings? #journalismism
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    Image of reacharoundjesus reacharoundjesus
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Small town city hall meetings are the worst beat. They are insanely boring and the only joy is when the crazy people show up to yell at council members.
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    Image of Adah Adah
    10/21/09

    @reacharoundjesus: True story: my father left my mother while she was in the hospital giving birth to me in order to cover the local small town city council meeting. He was back in time for the main event, but this story somehow never made me feel important as a kid. #journalismism
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    Image of NorthernLite NorthernLite
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Let me get this straight. Texas has executed lots of people, yet they keep having more crime? So much for the death penalty being a deterrent to others.

    [Disclosure: My worse fear is when I get old I'll have to go live with family in Texass.] #journalismism
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