Newsies

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Beats Workin’

“Journalists, for all their self-importance, are often a little naïve about the way the real world works. Sure, being a newsie is a grind, the hours are not great and the public holds us in lower esteem than the women who work the poles at Satin Dolls down the road from the Tick Tock in Lodi, [NJ], but it beats working by a mile. Every day is a caper, and most reporters are attention-deprived adrenaline junkies who care only for the next story. Journalists are like cops, hugging the job close and savoring the rest of their life as they can.”

—David Carr, media columnist, The New York Times, (9/13/09)
(Thanks to alert WORDster Alexandra Halsey) (Click here for column.)

Editor’s Note: Put some capers on that.

Overheard in the Newsroom #1827:

News editor to reporter, on when the interns show up: “You’re going to have to seem more astute.”

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