Why I Quit My Dream Newspaper Job After 4 Months

I thought it was a great article. Obviously a person who is conscientious like this person and her own person (not a Gannett created beast) is going to hate working for a newspaper, especially in middle management. She was an editor and basically had no power. Newspapers are an awful, awful place to work right now and she recognized it early. KUDOS TO HER!!! Great article.

 

We just received notice that coffee is being eliminated. What a coincidence you mention it. We still have a little freelance money because it's still cheaper than replacing staff.

 

Unfortunately, this kind of mentality is part of the reason some people are reluctant to buy a subscription. Get rid of a trusted voice in favor of freelanced work by stringers who don't have the same credibility and resources? OK.

 

If only you had her balls.

 

Sounds like dog-walker is a business I need to consider. They must be in demand. Good pay, work for yourself, just have to brush up on how to not get bit.

 

Bradley's new publisher:

 

You like millennials, or you envy them?

Our nation's thought, political and industry yearn to know what makes them tick. As it relates to your generation - if I have your generation right - they mostly want to keep you and yours out of power. The selection of the millennial generation will be the Boomers' final gambit and potentially disastrous. They'll jump right over people born in the late 60s and 1970s. That's always been kind of the point.

Millennials are full-grown products of the postmodernity built for them. They are, in religious parlance, their own temples. Raised to be pleased and to know how to please others, to be in search of and seek out instatruths throughout the day. That's how the early Gen X and late Baby Boomer parents played it out.

I think the millennial generation is rather intellectually lazy, to be honest. Prone to not thinking things through. Prone to embracing things because others do. Who'd really want to play four sports at 10 years old? No one.

Having youthful whims catered to is a curse. It's an endless search for stimuli.

But the Boomers won't give it to you. They won't. I've long believed at least part of Obama's struggle in office was, simply put, having to put up with go-with-your-gut, I-want-it-my-way fifty and sixtysomethings who were damn well certain they knew better. Obama, desiring critique and nuance - something like balance - was constantly faced with a culture who rather liked cliches and bromides.

It's not so different from the still-reigning, dinosaur columnists of our day.

What I got out of the original piece was mostly this: That the management at the LAT figured - rather incorrectly - that this woman, based on her moxie and blogged opinions, had the brass to roll in and whip the department into shape. This is a mistake management often makes with the millennial generation. They are not as full of certitude and answers as they seem on the surface.

 

We have a few where I live ... they make a killing. If I get laid off, it's a job I just might be willing to take on. Heck, own your own business. Establish a customer base that will be loyal to you. How the fuck hard is it to walk a dog until it takes a shit?

 

Yeah totally. Because not being able to hire whoever you want = no power. And of course to have people with 20+ years in the business not immediately recognize what an incredible talent they were blessed to work with/for is unfathomable. How about edit and try to improve the copy and STFU. But she put in so much time there anyone would get frustrated after almost a year. That's an eternity.

 

That's a damn good analysis.

 

I can imagine an ad listing the qualifications for potential dog-walkers: "Must be willing/able to scoop poop."

 

I think they'd use "feces," Bronco.

"Must love feces to pieces."