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View from the summit: On making it in big-time web journalism
My brilliant journalistic career
Kile Smith
Another nail in the coffin of journalism was pounded in too far— leaving its tell-tale half-moon dent in the soft yellow pine of that fragile box of putative intellect called alternative media— when Broad Street Review this month added my name to its illustrious list of contributing editors. (Click here.)
Promoting me from contributor to CE would move me to a more exclusive spot in the server farm, editor Dan Rottenberg assured me. My new title also confers certain other fringe benefits, such as free rides on buses and subways when I turn 65 a generation hence.
When I asked what my duties would be as CE, as opposed to my previous work in what we should now refer to as the BCE, Dan told me to write well and to know what I'm talking about.
"But I've already tried that," I said.
"Try harder," he replied.
"But it's already so hard being a journalist," I said.
"You're not a journalist," he said. "Journalists meet deadlines."
"OK, never mind," I said. "Wow, so much to learn." I think I really did say Wow.
Promoting me from contributor to CE would move me to a more exclusive spot in the server farm, editor Dan Rottenberg assured me. My new title also confers certain other fringe benefits, such as free rides on buses and subways when I turn 65 a generation hence.
When I asked what my duties would be as CE, as opposed to my previous work in what we should now refer to as the BCE, Dan told me to write well and to know what I'm talking about.
"But I've already tried that," I said.
"Try harder," he replied.
"But it's already so hard being a journalist," I said.
"You're not a journalist," he said. "Journalists meet deadlines."
"OK, never mind," I said. "Wow, so much to learn." I think I really did say Wow.
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