Seattle Times cutting 200 jobs

These multi-year paid internships are the biggest scam ever. Not only will we pay you dick, not give you benefits and expect you to work as hard as a full-time employee, but we'll also lay you off at the first sign of trouble. Sign me up!

 

There are dozens of papers that offer them, I've seen them primarily for page designers but there are plenty of writing ones as well. They're garbage. Just find a job with a smaller paper where you can at least be a full-time employee. No one who's worked at a paper for three years should be considered an intern. It's insulting.

 

Heartbreaking.

Devastating.

I love this business.

I really hate this business.

Shit.

 

Knight-Ridder used to have something like that. In sports it was a two-year deal, often they would move you to two or three K-R papers. From what I understand at many of the papers it was geared toward minorities. I knew of at least two people who were offered full-time desk jobs out of these. Jenni Carlson (white), the columnist in Oklahoma City, did this in Kansas City, I believe.

 

This is the line I use, at least until the first clause doesn't apply anymore:

I love my job, but I hate the business of this business.

 

how many of us will still be working for newspapers in a year?

in five years?

in 10 years?

 

Newspapers are a drug, man. We gotta feed the addiction.

 

survivors of deadly plane crashes feel the same sense of guilt

 

Moddy,

The bad - guilty, by any other name - feelings fade, in time. Often at the urging of those left behind. It sucks to say since I'm a big believer in the "old guys/gals help the young guys/gals" teamwork and learning aspect of this profession. But everyone needs to do what is best for themselves and their families.

 

I'm going to re-watch the movie "Fearless" but think of Jeff Bridges' character as the survivor of a newspaper staff purging rather than an airline disaster. Might provide some nice context to this bullshee-eeeeee-it!