Columbia Grad Student has all the answers on Newspaper survival

Hey Columbia grad: do something useful and fetch me a beer.

 

Yep, nothing but Ivory Tower idiots at Columbia.

Like this one:

Tom Edsall joined the full-time faculty here after a twenty-five year career at The Washington Post. During that time, he covered all aspects of national politics, including presidential elections, the House and Senate, lobbying, tax policy, demographic trends, social welfare, the politics of race and ethnicity, organized labor, among other topics.

Or this one:

Professor Freedman received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked as a reporter for the Bridgewater (N.J) Courier-News, Chicago Tribune’s Suburban Trib and The New York Times. He has been a contributor to Rolling Stone, Salon,and The New York Times and a contributing correspondent to PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. His achievements include being a finalist for the National Book Award, 1990; winning theHelen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1993; being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizes, 1997; winning the New Jersey Humanities Council Book Award, 1997; earning the Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists, 1997; and winning the National Jewish Book Award, 2000.

Or this guy:

Dale Maharidge has been teaching at the journalism school since 2001; he first taught here in the early 1990s. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University for ten years and before that he spent fifteen years as a newspaperman, writing for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Sacramento Bee, and others. He’s written for Rolling Stone, George Magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New York Times op-ed page, among others.


But I'm sure their resume pales in comparison to yours, failed idiots that they are.

 

Never let facts get in the way of a good cliche.

 

But have they ever done agate?

 

it's called jealousy.