Winchester, Va.

[KaraokeC]

from journalismjobs.com. thoughts?

An athlete with that rare combination of inherent talent and a desire to succeed is someone any sports reporter would love to cover. That’s the same type of person The Winchester Star wants out of its next sports reporter. Do you have the talent, but also the willingness to learn from an experienced staff to grow? Do you have the desire and the energy to succeed? Then you may be the right person to help provide the most complete and vivid coverage of local sports in Virginia’s northern Shenandoah Valley six mornings a week. E-mail a resume and clips to [email protected] or mail them to The Winchester Star c/o Bobby Ford, Managing Editor, 2 N. Kent St., Winchester VA 22601.

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

I'd have a hard time working for anyone who could produce those first three sentences and allow them to be published on a national Web site.

Jesus. What is it that makes small-paper MEs and publishers think they have to reinvent the wheel with frickin' job ads?

Honestly.

An athlete with that rare combination of inherent talent and a desire to succeed is someone any sports reporter would love to cover. That’s the same type of person The Winchester Star wants out of its next sports reporter. Do you have the talent, but also the willingness to learn from an experienced staff to grow?

It's as if it was written in English, badly translated into Japanese and then Babel-fished back to English. It's like a car wreck...I can't turn away.

 

[In Cold Blood]

don't know anything about the paper, but poorly written job ads aside, Winchester is in a beautiful part of the world. . . at least from a landscape point of view, you could do much worse.

That being said, don't know a darn thing about the job, Northern Virginia just holds a special place in my heart.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Pott's Picks says,

"You're hired!"

 

[Willie-Butch]

This has the Dawg's name all over it.

 

[steveu]

I second Blood's view of the city. Gorgeous. Paper's not too bad, and you also have access to the WaPo, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and NY Times, Daily News and Post.

So if you're a news junkie, not a bad place to be.

 

[Willie-Butch]

Don't forget the Free Press and the Shenandoah Valley Herald, steveu

 

[Hustle]

That being said, don't know a darn thing about the job, Northern Virginia just holds a special place in my heart.

Just to clarify: It's Northern Virginia in the technical sense in that it's about the northern-most town you'll find in the state. But it's not near the DC suburbs of Northern Virginia.

Just in case anyone reading this isn't up on their Old Dominion geography.

 

[KaraokeC]

northern-most geographically, but certainly not culturally. i fully support sawdogg for this opening. or for president. you know, wherever sawdogg deems it best to apply his considerable skills.

what's that smell?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

This is like the median job in Virginia -- preps writer at a 20K daily. Decent writers, but last time I saw a physical copy it looked like **** took a crap on a turd. Heavy local -- a handful of high schools, a D-III school and some wood-bat summer baseball. If they go anywhere, it's rare or because of a local tie (they're the sister paper of the much-beloved Daily News Record, from whom they get their JMU coverage).

It's about an hour from Leesburg and the western D.C. suburbs, maybe less if traffic's going your way. You're also not far from Charles Town and the many treasures1 it has to offer.

1 -- treasures in this case being horse racing, nickel slots and STD-laden strip clubs

 

[Willie-Butch]

Well, it smells like.....no, that can't be it. Yeah, I think it is...I believe it's foreskin!

You better stay on the Dawg's good side, KaraokeC. He may end up taking your job. The world could use another hustla. God Bless the Dawg.

 

[Willie-Butch]

Meat, have you not seen a copy of the Star since the much-anticipated redesign? It's the tits. It only makes you want to vomit thrice instead of twice.

 

[Write-brained]

I'd venture to say that the Northern Virginia Daily job recently advertised is better than this one. They're only seperated by about 20 miles and the NVD is smaller but it's also independent and the Star is, ick, a Byrd paper. Daily is also much more aggressive and conducive to trying new things.

 

[Willie-Butch]

With either job, however, living in Winchester is the way to go. And, if I'm not mistaken, the NVD has filled its opening.

 

[steveu]

Don't forget the Free Press and the Shenandoah Valley Herald, steveu

Come to think of it, maybe those were at the Sheetz gas station I stopped at, too...

 

[Willie-Butch]

You can't go wrong with Sheetz, especially at 3 in the morning. That's when a 12-inch steak and cheese will do the trick.

 

[Write-brained]

I spent many a night eating those Sheetz cheese steaks with those freakish green peppers.

 

[SuperDeuce]

I too spent many a night eating Sheetz grubbins. Sadly, most times you pay for it in the morning when you develop the bubble guts and severe swamp ass. That said, it's usually worth it.

Yup, it certainly smells like foreskin in here. Sawdogg????

 

[User 4755]

Beautiful area for sure around there and Front Royal, up into West Virginia and Maryland. But that Sheetz food rates right up there with White Castle in terms of gastric issues. That's why they call them the Sheetz ****z.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Winchester Va.: Final resting place of country star Patsy Cline.

:'(