I mean, it must REALLY be a SLOW DAY…
The above article wins our Insipid Award of 2005, 2004 and 2003. Shouldn’t some supervisors be checking time spent, with stories produced and KINDS of stories?
You’ll note that this piece (and believe me, it IS a piece) doesn’t seem to be written in jest. (I wonder what his laundry hamper looks like? Hey, the public has a right to know…)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.