“As I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any other enterprise. It is really the life of kings.”
—H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist and curmudgeon, The Baltimore Sun, 1953 (Thanks to alert WORDster Tom Ferrell)
Jimmy Margulies, New Jersey Record, 2006 (http://www.cagle.com/news/NewYorkTimes/2.asp)
Journalism used to be fun like that. But the suits and the ideologues and the pickle-butts have taken the fun out of it.
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree with you--the news business has become either fluff or corporate or both. But there was never any lack of ideologues, at least when I was in the newsroom. Of course, those were the days of the Royal Standard and carbon paper...
ReplyDeleteGod, I'm old.
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