There's the Door...

Purists like Fuh Real apparently don't think making a living matters. All that paying bills and putting food on the table just gets in the way.

 

That is hilarious. But seriously...herd any good Dan Rydell stories lately?

 

If you want to work for somebody else, then two bad things can happen.

If you work for yourself, only one bad thing can happen.

Don't get them confused.

 

So we should all start our own newspapers to work for ourselves? That might not be the most secure approach.

 

This man is a genius. If you want to rely on others - management, publishers, owners that you constantly belittle on this board for their lack of... what? direction? good sense? not being purely "journalistic" in their ambitions? – then don't bitch about your predicament. Go and change it yourself. Grow a pair. Or else be like Dan Rydell and lament the fact that you can't be among the circle of hard-working journalists...those that toiled in the good old days
(which by the way, are long ass gone).

 

Still wanting to suck my thumb and "here" your stories, Einstein. Come on big Dan, oh embittered one, enlighten all us newbies.

 

He probably never had the experience of the publisher coming into a meeting complaining about what her son makes in a different industry and saying in front of reporters, "I can't imagine how people survive on less than 25K a year."

All the reporters would have loved to tell her how difficult it is. Apparently to her, its OK for us to be poor, but not sonny boy.