No Shakespeare yet, Mr. Monkey? That's okay, you work at a newspaper!
You know you’ve reached pop culture status when you’re being ripped off riffed on like this.
Stuff White People Like — the original list blog devoted to, well, stuff that white people like. Probably has its share of imitators. But none has struck a chord with me more than this one:
#10 Drinking
The old stereotype of the curmudgeon journalist with a bottle of whiskey in his desk is alive and well today because journalists like to drink …. Drinking is done best by journalists in shotty bars and questionable establishments. The kind of places where a journalist might run into the same perps he writes about on his beat.
See also #9 Coffee, #72 Swag, and #15 Reporter’s Notebooks.
The blog, for one written presumably by journalists, is riddled with grammatical and other copy errors. So it’s probably written by reporters. As a reporter AND a copy editor, I can attest that reporters think that they are the only journalists. Copy editors, section editors, photographers and other journalists just don’t cut the mustard with the real working scribes. (I kid because I love)
(hat tip to Boing Boing — comment thread there is worth reading)
Grant Hamilton
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