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Irate journalists now have an outlet to anonymously vent their newsroom induced rage, courtesy of angryjournalist.com who offer the prompt, Why are you angry today?
I don’t know whether to be depressed or amused that in just over two weeks the site has generated over 1100 posts.
Here are a few of the gripes on there:
Angry Journalist #1067 “I’m angry that so many readers don’t know the difference between a news article, an ad and an opinions piece. I constantly field calls from readers who want to talk about that “article” that is so obviously an ad, and those who want to complain because an opinions piece was biased, and “news articles” shouldn’t be that way.”
Angry Journalist #861: “I’m angry at sources who only know two words: no comment.”
Angry Journalist #754: “Spending three days writing a feature, getting in shit for spending that long on it, and then having it bumped out because an ad got booked on the page….that royally pissed me off today.”
Angry Journalist #693: “I hate that instead of looking up how to spell something I just use another word that means the same thing. Or do I?”
Hohum.
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Indeed this girl has a good point. We are all in need of an outlet for some of the pent up angst that we experience. Undervalued, underappreciated, underpayed and increasingly un-employed. Let us hope people use it for good, not evil… Journos have a bed enough rep already.
Comment by Martinghewitt February 29, 2008 @ 11:40 amWhat a fantastic port for venting all our frustrated anger! I can’t help but wonder though that as we read through some comments we’ll only get more frustrated and angered by the ridiculous comments that appear. Furthermore you only know that as the weeks pass there will be blatant references to editorial bosses who are rubbing journalists up the wrong way…let’s just hope they won’t be reading this site! I mean why would they when they have us to take their anger out on.
Comment by sadie15 May 15, 2008 @ 9:56 amWell I’m not too amused. I had a little scroll through the 1100 posts and I have to say, they don’t seem at all unreasonable.
Journalism is a skill, one which takes a lot of honing. As a reward for our tireless efforts to inform, educate and entertain the public we are indeed underpaid and undervalued.
When I heard the recent news that Coleen Mcloughlin, an untrained and, lets be honest, not very good, journalist gets paid £100,000 for her weekly column in Closer I was outraged!
How ridiculous! The woman tells us nothing more than how many times she visited the gym last week and how many blisters her new pair of Jimmy Choo’s have given her.
Us journalist’s who have trained to become skilled in our field are offered a starting salary of £14,000 if we’re lucky.
It’s a hard job and we get little recognition for it.
Anyone for a career change?
Comment by cameela May 15, 2008 @ 10:05 am