tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post7076178369574160615..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: I guess you know this means WAR, Attila?Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-32046315323800179702009-05-12T16:42:00.000-04:002009-05-12T16:42:00.000-04:00I spent three years as news director at a little r...I spent three years as news director at a little radio/TV station in Baraboo. I wrote upwards of 15,000 words every week. My salary was...well, less.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-88041784238200956642009-05-12T11:12:00.000-04:002009-05-12T11:12:00.000-04:00What I want to know is how a person moves to an ex...What I want to know is how a person moves to an expensive place like New York City, without a real job, sending out freelance articles, hoping to make it in writing?<br /><br />I really want to know the economics of that. I want to know how that works, because that is the question I always have, and that is the question that all writers like Smalera rush past without commenting on.<br /><br />How do you support yourself with no income while looking for your 'big break'?<br /><br />yrs,<br />Mikey NTHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-32323063253284974302009-05-11T21:14:00.000-04:002009-05-11T21:14:00.000-04:00Urhm, you do know that when I attack "newsmen", yo...Urhm, you do know that when I attack "newsmen", you are not included. Now, my logic is simple; you actually report, you know, the news; the ones I attack do not, or worse, they distort, misinform, lie, etc. Even if I disagree with you on many things, I think (and that is important) that you are as honest as possible.<br /><br />Besides, your style seems old school. I have to wonder if you have a manual typewriter or three, and maybe an electric for kicks (and a small printing press, who knows?). I sort of wish I had one too, though for different reasons (a manual, a good one). Yeah, even if I tend to think of you as liberal (comparative, secular if you will), you bring to mind the newsman I used to like to read, sometimes in spite of myself. <br /><br />I am just avoiding a war. I can't win it. I can't write. Kick a dead horse, while he is down to boot, but... neigh...Doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392444624210801173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-44885229191219006082009-05-11T21:11:00.000-04:002009-05-11T21:11:00.000-04:00The sorriest trade in the world is that of the 'jo...The sorriest trade in the world is that of the 'journalist,' that ink-stained wretch who -- ostensibly -- knows how to write but certainly does not know what he's writing about.<br /><br />Were I an editor of nonfiction, I would hire ex-cops, ex-firemen, ex-firefighters, ex-bureaucrats, doctors, engineers and scientists as my correspondents. I suspect it would be easier to teach them to write than it would be to teach modern journalists <I>anything.</I>richard mcenroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659450906647134430noreply@blogger.com