Stuff Journalists Like
Thursday, June 26, 2008
I was checking up on Stuff White People Like, the hilarious blog that spawned the equally thought-provoking Stuff Educated Black People Like, when I realized nobody has accounted for the journalists of the world. So here it is, Stuff Journalists Like:
1. Messenger bags
2. All the President's Men
3. Blackberrys
4. Holiday sweaters
5. Seinfeld
6. AP Stylebook
7. Vests with large pockets
8. Free food
9. Correcting bad grammar/typos
10. "This American Life"
11. Button-down shirts
12. Action figures
13. Exclusives
14. Credentials on lanyards
15. Small cars
16. Debates
17. Baseball caps
18. Blogs
19. Anchorman
20. Reporting overseas
21. The New York Times
22. Coffee
23. Telephoto lenses
24. Conferences
25. Lists
26. Standing up for the little guy
27. Cake
Feel free to add your own observations in the comments.
EDITED TO ADD: Visit the blog Stuff Journalists Like for more
1. Messenger bags
2. All the President's Men
3. Blackberrys
4. Holiday sweaters
5. Seinfeld
6. AP Stylebook
7. Vests with large pockets
8. Free food
9. Correcting bad grammar/typos
10. "This American Life"
11. Button-down shirts
12. Action figures
13. Exclusives
14. Credentials on lanyards
15. Small cars
16. Debates
17. Baseball caps
18. Blogs
19. Anchorman
20. Reporting overseas
21. The New York Times
22. Coffee
23. Telephoto lenses
24. Conferences
25. Lists
26. Standing up for the little guy
27. Cake
Feel free to add your own observations in the comments.
EDITED TO ADD: Visit the blog Stuff Journalists Like for more
10 Comments
Mark Dodge Medlin Says:
28. Election night pizza
29. "The Daily Show"
30. Bitching
31. Moaning
32. Romanesko
29. "The Daily Show"
30. Bitching
31. Moaning
32. Romanesko
Says:
33. Writing
34. Making fun of TV journalists
35. Playing football with marketing guys
36. Fresh notepad
37. Hunter S Thompson
34. Making fun of TV journalists
35. Playing football with marketing guys
36. Fresh notepad
37. Hunter S Thompson
dgelles Says:
38. Procrastonating
39. Bemoaning the death of our profession
40. Fantasizing about being rich
41. Scoops
42. Macs
43. The smell of newsprint
39. Bemoaning the death of our profession
40. Fantasizing about being rich
41. Scoops
42. Macs
43. The smell of newsprint
Joan Says:
44. Those times when someone from your community actually calls to THANK you.
(And, holy cow, I'm surprised Free Food wasn't No. 1!)
(And, holy cow, I'm surprised Free Food wasn't No. 1!)
Pamela Cytrynbaum Says:
50. Not doing math
51. Coffee
52. Seeing our name on Page One above the fold in the news box
53. Attaboys
54. Being marginalized
55. Bitching about being marginalized without really BEING marginalized
56. When shitty editors get theirs
57. Lots of inches
58. Hating TV reporters
59. Dating TV reporters
60. The Billy Goat Tavern
61. The local news bar
62. Knowing that what we do is deeply important
63. Complaining about how what we do is deeply important and utterly unappreciated
64. Stickin' it to The Man
65. Praying to become The Man
66. Regretting not going to law school
67. Regretting not getting their MBA
68. Dreading actually having to get a real job
69. Bitching about how journalism has become a real job
70. Wishing it was like it used to be
51. Coffee
52. Seeing our name on Page One above the fold in the news box
53. Attaboys
54. Being marginalized
55. Bitching about being marginalized without really BEING marginalized
56. When shitty editors get theirs
57. Lots of inches
58. Hating TV reporters
59. Dating TV reporters
60. The Billy Goat Tavern
61. The local news bar
62. Knowing that what we do is deeply important
63. Complaining about how what we do is deeply important and utterly unappreciated
64. Stickin' it to The Man
65. Praying to become The Man
66. Regretting not going to law school
67. Regretting not getting their MBA
68. Dreading actually having to get a real job
69. Bitching about how journalism has become a real job
70. Wishing it was like it used to be
oeconomist.com Says:
Journalists who like All the President's Mne should really read “The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism” by George Friedman at Stratfor. As Friedman writes “The only way Felt could have the knowledge he did was if the FBI had been systematically spying on the White House, on the Committee to Re-elect the President and on all of the other elements involved in Watergate. Felt was not simply feeding information to Woodward and Bernstein; he was using the intelligence product emanating from a section of the FBI to shape The Washington Post’s coverage.”
Woodward, Bernstein, and The Post weren't heroically saving the republic; they were wittingly and profitably letting themselves be used by Hoover's machine against Nixon's machine.
Woodward, Bernstein, and The Post weren't heroically saving the republic; they were wittingly and profitably letting themselves be used by Hoover's machine against Nixon's machine.
yay for coffee!
June 26, 2008 10:23 AM