Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
I really enjoyed the fact that the target seduced hipster on the front page of style yesterday wasn't even a dc resident on the street... but a stock photo.
Jeff I'm sorry that you had to sit through this woman's presentation. How tragic. A former Kenyan cowboy becomes second rate yuppie consultant. It's pretty fucking sad that this woman thinks that using words such as "cool" or "sucks" with your junior employees means that you'll be better able to communicate w/them.*
Newspapers are hiring journalists who don't read and can't write. And a majority of blogs are a nightmare to read. But the blogs allow people to make comments and insights that journalists might have missed.
*Let's face it. The value of clear and consistent communication in the English language has declined severely in the last 40 years.
I understand that this is BYT's attempt at becoming relevant in this specific conversation, but you're just making the circle jerk bigger and jerkier.
Fuck stealing their stories. I say we just steal their fucking printing press.
Can anyone write without using the word "snarky" anymore?
good call dan-o-matic
it's like a linguistic meme, the way that word "vetted" became absurdly widespread prior to the last election.
"snarky" is emerging to describe any blogger who defends him/herself with sarcasm, I guess.
i don't have it in front of me, but i'm pretty sure the chicago manual of style (15th edition) permits beginning sentences with 'but.'
I understand that this is BYT’s attempt at becoming relevant in this specific conversation, but you’re just making the circle jerk bigger and jerkier.
As well they should. This whiny little fucker is crying in his soup because the barbarians (bloggers) are at the gate of his once secure castle (The Washington Post).
Newspapers provide a great service to us all, but they have to adapt to changing realities just like the rest of us.
Edward - you are right. It is under 5.191 in the 15th.
Yet another example of a young person who is unfortunately stuck in an obsolescent industry whose standards and outlooks are dictated by old stodgy bastards. Rather than try to inject some life into print journalism, he'd rather go down with the ship. (Hey, fella, that sucker is already sinking.)
Maybe it's because he's trying to please that righteously indignant editor of his, but if he's really going to get anywhere (and by anywhere I mean not writing columns in a Monday lifestyle section about things I read three weeks ago on any number of blogs), Ian Shapira eventually needs to grow a backbone and respond, not react, to what's going on all around him.
To be fair, I was only 'reprinting' Ian's use of the term Snark. If I'm going to be called a thief for quoting him, I don't expect to be held accountable for HIS overuse of the terms Snark or Snarky.
Hmm...Respond and react are synonyms. They have a very similar meaning. Try using a thesaurus. They're great tools.
I do love a good fight, but I went to school for broadcasting and journalism, and there is nothing wrong with using the same sources as someone else, but it's pretty low to ask someone else to do all the work for you. The only thing lower than that is outright plagiarism, IMHO. If you really want to learn how to write, go to school for it. Just because everyone has a keyboard and a monitor now, doesn't mean everyone can form well-written sentences, paragraphs, articles and novels, and it doesn't mean everyone automatically knows what constitutes proper journalism ethics and what does not. The skills to create a good story are acquired over time, and like any real craft, can be self-taught, but will generally be recognized by those who study it as such.
It's like drawing a picture of a person. You can learn how to do it on your own, but if you learn from great artists and teachers (and study real human beings, not just make up what they look like from your head), the results will usually be more lifelike.
I, too, weep for the future.