February 28, 2008

Angry Ex-Journalist

By now you may have seen the site Angry Journalist -- Is that a hacked Wordpress install? Pretty clever if so! -- where anonymous journalists rant about why they hate journalism.

While things aren't exactly going all that smoothly in the industry right now, journalists have been complaining since Johan Gutenberg said, "Fluch! Bewegliche gedruckte Art ist ein Ausfall." (According to Babelfish, "Damn! Movable printed type is a failure." I translated that from English, so the German translation is no doubt wrong.)

Anyway, a co-worker of mine (thanks, Alli!) came across a possible recent anonymous post that really fits well with a certain former editor of a local alternative weekly.

Oh, now, come on, Hickey! I can't speak for everybody, but I never trusted you -- to soil our youth by mocking a man trying to show them the evils of 4:20... becoming Johnny Doc's campaign manager was really your only option.

Update, 2/29: Aw, Hickey says it wasn't him. Which is what I knew, which is why I didn't ask, because then I'd have to make a new joke. If you need me, I'll be circling around a dying man somewhere in Arizona.

Posted by D-Mac on February 28, 2008 12:57 PM
Posted to Angry Journalist , Brian Hickey , Complaining , Journalism , Web 2.0