Anybody can have a bad century

I thought of that line, usually applied to the Chicago Cubs, when I saw this job ad. Emphasis is mine:

-- The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana (Gary, IN) seeks a North Lake/Gary editor with five years supervisory experience who will direct reporters to uncover and tell great stories in Gary, a community that is going through a tough spell involving crime, social and educational troubles; must be someone who has assigned daily, weekly and project stories and has a passion to repeat that success; must be a skillful editor who can relate to reporters both seasoned and green and make sure their stories are edited for quality, thoroughness, focus and usefulness, managing a bureau office and its staffers. Pay $40-50K/year. To apply, contact Paulette Haddix, executive editor, by calling (219) 648-3158 or e-mail phaddix@post-trib.com. (9/4)

Also, the paper fled Gary for Merrillville a few years ago.

 

It's because of pool.

Maybe they need someone to come in and teach the kids how to play musical instruments.

 

It's easy to take potshots at a place like Gary (or Detroit or Newark or anywhere a lot of poor black people live), but Gary is a fascinating city and a great news town. Cities and areas like this are better places to be a reporter than affluent areas where everybody's kid scores a 1400 on their SAT.

 

As long as I could commute in from Chicago.

 

I spent a night there back in 1996. Boyfriend who was driving across country with me figured it was a good place to stop. But he wouldn't go to Detroit because he was worried something would happen to us.
At Gary, we stayed at a place called the American Inn, where the desk clerk was protected by a bulletproof shield and there were what looked like gunshot spray on the back wall of the elevator.
But Detroit was too dangerous.

 

That's Hammond, not Gary.

 

Baghdad is a great place to be a reporter, too. God bless those adventurous and/or brave enough to do so.

For me, life is too short to live and/or work in hell.

 

i blame michael jackson

 

It's not like the whole area is like that. Guess it depends on what kind of reporter you want to be.

 

I like being a breathing one.

 

Is Paula any relation to Harvey?

 

Doesn't this thread belong on the Asian dong jobs board?

Just asking.