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

[Flip Wilson]

I still miss the newsroom vibe on days when the major stories are hitting hard. And there are days when the PR/Comms thing doesn't move the needle in the least for me.

But like MileHigh said, bigger paycheck, nights, weekends and holidays. And things like off-schedule pay raises and promotions without my pursuing them, "just because we see your dedication, unmatched ability to meet deadlines and the quality of your work."

Make no mistake, I freely believe I was better at my newspaper gig than I am at this job. But the items in bold would never happen in a million years at the paper I left. The most I'd get would be a "be happy you're employed" mindset. The further I get from it, the more it feels like I was the victim in an abusive relationship. When former co-workers and I get together and reminisce, each of us has a "did this really happen, and we were accepting of that?" trove of stories.

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.

 

[Flip Wilson]

Great take(s).
Thousands of college seniors are graduating every June, thinking they've got the tools and talent to anchor the ABC/NBC/CBS Evening News
Even though they don't know much history/geography/economics and mumble their speech.
I was thinking just the other day of a college professor who would tell students they needed to practice speaking out loud and rid themselves of verbal crutches and dialects. Seemed like good advice at the time. Today, he'd be fired.

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.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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.

 

[MileHigh]

Merry Christmas Cheer(leading) from Denver

 

[MNgremlin]

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

 

[Slacker]

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 forkers 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!

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I feel like the lustre is off the snow globe.

 

[SixToe]

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

 

[PCLoadLetter]

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.

 

[HanSenSE]

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

CU spring ball?

 

[MeanGreenATO]

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

 

[Batman]

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?