HELP WANTED: 40ish WM seeks personal editor to hlp aggregate and digest news and info. Prvs employees were fired for bias, laziness, and lack of relevance. Top candidates will be well-read, smart, connected, and eager to separate fact from BS. Job expectations include 24/7 maintenance of list of news items I would consider most important to me. Pay is non-existent, as I refuse to pay for content either. Contact me at ike@pigott.name
Welcome to the 21st century, where we’ve fired all the editors and now we’re whining about the lack of quality in the content.
To be fair, I blame the owners for giving the editors less and less to work with, and too many incentives to cut corners instead of pushing back toward quality.
But every time I unsubscribed from the paper, or took my news free straight from the internet, I inched closer to firing the editor. And an Editor In Chief is precisely what I need to make sense of the world today.
There are probably thousands of them floating around, eager for the work. But we’re too spoiled to pay them what they’re worth.
Ike, I have said it before… I am not a fan of journalists (no offense), for some of the reasons you mention up above in the help wanted ad. I agree that often they present their bias as news, present news that’s really not news worthy, etc. I think a lot of it has to do with cutbacks, pressure, politics, etc. If there were Editor-in-Chiefs that stood up for the quality content you are talking about, perhaps so many wouldn’t be out of business or struggling. But I think we are so far from that reality…I just don’t see it happening.
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Ike,
What do mean Gordon Lightfoot isn’t dead?
At some point, we have to hope people come to their senses and realize that quantity and quality are two different things. At least, I hope. Objective news would be nice too.
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Best,
Rich