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his life was warfare tell your friends and your cousins we need you i say we line em all up and we gun em all down on the banks of the old raritan all the beating drums, the celebration guns all the beating drums, the celebration guns i can see you but you can't see me can it be that it was all so simple then lift me up, burn it down, we may suffer and we may... public witness ain't seeing too much Wednesday, April 02, 2008
you're old and your hands are grey:
  David Hershey complains:“Thirty years ago, you worked at a newspaper, you moved to a magazine, and then you wrote books or screenplays. Today you can be a blogger who writes books or you can be a stripper who wins an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.”By far the best part of the Observer piece: One 23-year-old political journalist told The Observer that the New Republic reporter-researcher job—famed for launching the careers of Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, New Yorker Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, Atlantic editor James Bennet and author Hanna Rosin, among others—is no longer quite the coveted position it once was. “Part of the reason why the TNR internship isn’t as big as it used to be is that if you were a young sharpie on the make in 1990 or even 1995, there just weren’t that many places where you could get your start,” the political journalist said. “But the rise of the kind of whole bloggy progressive thing has, I think, really kicked off the careers of some people, or at least for smart liberal college students.”Plus Ryan is thoroughly untrustworthy. --Spencer Ackerman
“Part of the reason why the TNR internship isn’t as big as it used to be is that if you were a young sharpie on the make in 1990 or even 1995, there just weren’t that many places where you could get your start,” the political journalist said. “But the rise of the kind of whole bloggy progressive thing has, I think, really kicked off the careers of some people, or at least for smart liberal college students.” |
