Angryjournalist.com: Where Stupid Savannah & Scott Larson Intersect

Who knew there was such a place for journalists to vent? This could be Stupid Savannah:

Angry Journalist #135:

"Drooling design dolts who think they can chant stupidity into fact. “Copy editor”/designers who don’t read any copy, but then spend the whole shift designing, and allow countless mistakes into the paper. Gutless, cowering editors who don’t correct these and other myriad problems. Photographers who can’t write a cutline to save their lives and who refuse to get the basic info so someone else can do their job for them. Dumbass publishers who get their kicks out of paying next to nothing to most staffers while they drive expensive cars to work. Greedy, idiotic Baby Boomers who are just waiting to parachute out of the industry they’ve left far, far worse than when they started."

And I could swear Scott Larson wrote this:

Angry Journalist #271:

"We are doing great things in multimedia online at our small newspaper. And it’s being done by those of us with no real journalism training whatsoever because our actual journalists turn up their noses at the web, and can’t seem to grasp the concept of adaptation and change.

Ask them to blog and I get, “Too busy.” Ask them to post a news update on the web using the incredibly easy 1-2-3 system I set up just for them, and they’ll only do it if an editor makes them. Ask them to pop their heads in our very busy forums and interact with the people who read their bylines, and nope, they won’t do it. Ask them to take about 45 minutes once or twice a week to anchor a news webcast, and look out, let the whining begin at how loooooong it takes. Nevermind that their 45 minutes is my 3 hours of pre/post production and editing for a 4 minute piece.

So hey guys, carry on bitching and moaning and looking down your nose at the web. When you’re out of a job because you clung to your precious 4 year journalism degree and dreams of what newspapers used to be like, and I’m doing your job with my self-taught knowledge of the web, video production, and willingness to embrace new things, don’t come crying to me."

Where's H.L. Mencken when you need him?