tomhagan

September 19th, 2009 at 4:10 AM ^

Thanks for the link!...g-dam, the kids are doing better / more colorful and in depth work than ANY of the local papers... hope they dont suck like the rest of them, once they start getting paid.

"just because its da theme song from the Jeffersons, dont make it not true" - Kirk Lazarus

shorts

September 19th, 2009 at 4:16 AM ^

... hope they dont suck like the rest of them, once they start getting paid.

I think it's inevitable. From my experiences, once you get a job at a "real paper" you lose most of your freedom and are tasked with drab stories that offer little to no opportunity for meaningful insight.

Also, I think there's a competitiveness at a lot of the bigger papers, with every writer wanting to get his or her name out there in the general public. Unfortunately, the quickest way to do that is by writing crap that will get people's attention, regardless of its quality.

Tater

September 19th, 2009 at 6:36 AM ^

The Michigan Daily has at least two better feature writers/journalists than anyone in the Ann Arbor/Detroit market. Why can't the "big three" newspapers hire people like this?