Or to put it another way, my little NSNC survey is drawing the priapists out of the woodwork.
Blogger Brian Schweitzer cites my seminal (haha) work before opining:
If Writing an Entire Column Is Like Sex...
Does that make blogging the premature ejaculation of the writing world?
He apparently got the link to the E&P story from Eugene Kane of the Milwaukee Sentinel, who is a real columnist and who said:
WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2006, 11:39 a.m.
By Eugene Kane
Writing a newspaper column like sex?
I will take the news from a recent survey that many newspaper columnists think writing a column is like sex with a grain of salt.I do agree that being a columnist is a very satisfying job, but comparing it with sex seems a little over the top to me.
However, there is one similarity. Whenever I'm writing my column, I always think I'm doing a pretty good job but invariably I still get complaints.
And then there's this:
Poking fun at journalism’s rotting corpse.
Ewww
July 5th, 2006 by Justin
What follows is an article from E and P about the steamy metaphors columnists use to describe their workload. As a reminder, I have a few pictures of what columnists look like next to the story.
You want see those pictures you click here right now.
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Thanks for the link Prof. Robertson, but you can't deny that the visual of Thomas Friedman thrusting the concept of a regular deadline is stomach turning.
Keep up the good work.
Justin Young
www.MediaBitchfest.com
Praise from MediaBitchfest is better than money in the bank. But don't make the leap to thinking your shit don't stink.
I live by the motto that the smartest people I know are the first to call themselves idiots. In that vain, I aspire to call myself a moron.
Justin
I be laughin', youngblood. It is still all about the fun.
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