No, you CAN'T root in the damn press box

A friend of mine is the top communications person at an academic division within a university. Without her asking for it, she was promoted from communications director to assistant dean.

 

I was listening to our of our recent master's degree graduates talking today, and the number of times that he said "like" was unbearable. It was multiple times each sentence. I guess nobody ever told him, like, not to do that.

 

I like, like, this post.

 

Twitter has allowed everyone to be a columnist. Opinions aren't left to one person per shop any longer.

 

Everyone on social media, for 20 years now, thinks that
being able to write ANYTHING makes them a JOURNALIST!!1!!, too.

It doesn't. ... Not even close, of course.

And yet: It's one of the major reasons all these idiots everywhere blast the media then, now and maybe forever more. They get all their news from social media and partisan cable news (both sides), and then they immediately accept that as the Gospel Truth.

READ, people. Then, READ MORE. All those fuckers who killed newspapers mostly didn't want to invest time in reading anymore.

And now we have this: an entire country, mostly, invested only in TV buzz phrases they just shout at each other every day, every week.

[ahem]

But, anyway, Happy Holidays to all of you, SJ.com.
Always good to get back here every day and see what's up!

 

I feel like the lustre is off the snow globe.

 

She doesn’t like the NBA or MLB? If not, who is she going to cheer for from January to August?

 

I have no doubt her stalkers on here will breathlessly keep us updated.

 

CU spring ball?

 

I will say the Romi posts have gotten out of hand. 33 pages and counting seems a bit unhinged, even for SJ.

 

So you feel like we've chronicled the rise and fall of the Romi Empire?