Everybody at the receiving end of the media has a crib against the media. We (allegedly, and of course sometimes truly) cheat, cook up, distort, fabricate, lie, misquote, put words in the mouth, screw up, and heaven knows do what els to get a good story out. But how many of our victims have the…
Daily Archives: 8 April 2007
It’s not the end of the world if you’re fired
Fired from your job? Downsized? Rightsized? Irrationally “rationalised?” Not to worry. It’s a big world out there, a big world wide web. The Santa Barbara News-Press suddenly found it didn’t need an “x” number of journalists. The journos walked out and set up a news website of their own called Santa Barbara Newsroom to compete…