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“I think this building should be condemned. There’s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it’s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.”
— Dr. Egon Spengler
Oh my gosh we’ve been outed!
It’s been figured out…and we’ve done such a good job for so long keeping the wool pulled down over the eyes of everyone.
But now its out in the open…we’re exposed…the world knows…and I have no idea about how we are going to go on.
It’s a cruel world, a tough world, made even more difficult by what “Woodward and Bernstein” have discovered about us.
I guess its time to stay home on friday nights…I guess its time to get reacquainted with the family…
Perhaps its time for me to get back to Magic Mountain in the fall for the first time in ten years.
Now that we’ve been outed, what’s the point?
As David Essex once said; “Where do we go from here? Which is the way that’s clear…?”
You see, after nine years…after covering seven teams and expanding to near 60…after being only a weekly hard copy and going live on the internet daily, nightly and all spots in between…after working with dozens of interns…after taking our web stats from zero to 10,000 plus a week…after going from audio to video…after surviving a website Chernobyl last December…after taking the local sports coverage provided and ramping it up from the days of “football good, touchdown good”… We’ve been outed with the truth.
The truth according to “Woodward and Bernstein”…the truth according to the “Trib-Star” is we suck.
My heart’s breaking…I don’t know if I can go on…I don’t know if I can survive…the organization that could suck a golf ball through a garden hose…the organization that has mastered the week old scoop…pirating pics…mandated vacations without pay…cut thousands of dollars from its prep budget…and writes its stories with all the illumination of the IRS tax code…The organization that has taken sucks to new heights…has scooped us all again.
The Trib-Star says we suck…
That’s enough for me…I’m not going to fight or make jokes about being taller than Robledo…
I’m not going to stir up trouble…I’m going to take the critique of the place with the lowest morale on earth and learn from it.
After all, they do it full time. We just do what we do part time…This is why they are able to give all of the in depth analysis they give, the research they display…this is why they are able to show up halfway through the first quarter of a football game…because they do it full time.
I understand.
Since the Mid Valley staff is working other jobs there’s no way we could display the tender loving condescension to our interns the full timers do.
No chance we could get away with throwing coaches and personal lives under the bus of societal scrutiny.
Because they do this full time they don’t have to worry about things being off the record and blowing up situations better left alone.
Because they do this full time and have to race back for a print deadline…of a hard copy which is clueless to the fact it’s authoring its own demise…I understand we are not under the same pressures they are.
We suck, because we have no clue how tough it is when your day starts at noon.
We suck because we don’t know how to have fun…we suck because we don’t pay homage to AP Style or use the sacred title Journalist.
But, YA KNOW, with all that said…I’ll take life at The Mid with Citizen Keenan, our crappy computers, shoestring budget, chaotic days, steady paychecks, and stable of writers who blow away anything the full timers have to offer when they write “Football good. Touchdown good.”
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