USA Today and The Tennessean to hire "video-forward reporter" to cover Taylor Swift

[Mr. X]

From The Wall Street Journal: Nearly 1,000 Apply for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Reporting Jobs: 'This Is How We Save Local Journalism'

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

"This is how we save local journalism"

Don't pay attention to the 200 ways "we save local journalism" that has flopped in the last 25 years at Gannett. This one REALLY is how ...

forking imbeciles.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

From The Wall Street Journal: Nearly 1,000 Apply for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Reporting Jobs: 'This Is How We Save Local Journalism'

Wanna bet that 99.9% of the applicants are under the mistaken (or misguided) impression that they're gonna be able to hang out with Swift/Beyonce?

 

[HanSenSE]

Wanna bet that 99.9% of the applicants are under the mistaken (or misguided) impression that they're gonna be able to hang out with Swift/Beyonce?

Much like folks would ask me when I started at the Podunk Weekly Fishwrap "Do you get to cover the 49ers," not understanding Friday night football was the biggest thing on my beat.

 

[Azrael]

If Tay-Tay knelt for the anthem, it would cause a singularity.

50% of the way there

Fact Check: Travis Kelce Once Knelt for the Anthem, Appeared in Bud Light and Pfizer Ads?

Meanwhile,

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce should be executed: Christian commentator

 

[Azrael]

I think we've probably had dedicated reporters traveling with superstar entertainers since Sarah Bernhardt's first US tour.

1880.

 

[playthrough]

From The Wall Street Journal: Nearly 1,000 Apply for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Reporting Jobs: 'This Is How We Save Local Journalism'

Isn't that a stunningly low number? Maybe Gannett should have accepted applications via TikTok.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

From The Wall Street Journal: Nearly 1,000 Apply for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Reporting Jobs: 'This Is How We Save Local Journalism'

You're hired!

 

[Azrael]

You're hired!

Also,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-romance-trump/

 

[RonClements]

Also,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/29/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-romance-trump/

LOL What?!

 

[Azrael]

LOL What?!

I know, right?

 

[swingline]

Can't read it. What did it say?