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| Miss Jane Begs for Money |
| 2010-05-20 |
| The fund raising letter excerpted from the Politico article. The comments are pretty funny, too. The Miss Jane reference are a reference to the Beverly Hillbillies character Miss Jane Hathaway. Same haughtiness, same desperation, same deportment. $35 buys me dinner with a confidential source in New York Start slumming. One you will have to starve and meet at McDonalds. $1 value menu, remember? $75 pays for an interpreter for a reporter researching a story in Afghanistan. Tell the reporter to start learning a new foreign language. $150 covers an Amtrak ticket to Washington so a writer can testify before Congress Bus travel is pretty cheap these days, I hear. And Congress can't spring for per diem? $300 buys a labor reporter's ticket to Detroit for a piece on unemployment See above reference to a bus ticket. $500 (expenses extra) rewards a brilliant article by a young journalist on Tehran dissidents Times are lean. Bet he/she can take $250. Hell, I'd take $50 for a brilliant article. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 Speak truth to power my |
| Posted by: ed 2010-05-20 17:00 |
| #9 Someone's gotta pay for all those USPS pensions, eh? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2010-05-20 16:54 |
| #8 Jane's Addiction. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-20 16:53 |
| #7 Of course, Katrina can’t possibly accept The Nations' poor performance is due to a substandard product and a dwindling target audience. No Sir! She has to blast the evil corporate Time Warner and their incestuous relationship with Bush appointed regulators at the USPS. Here’s the hook from The Nations’ fund raiser: The Nation needs extra help—especially now that we’ve been slapped with a $500,000 postage hike, courtesy of Time Warner lobbyists. And here’s the real story from a NYT business OP/ED. Money Shot: “If The Nation should be complaining about anything, it is Congress's unfortunate requirement that the Postal Service has to have a break-even ''business model.'' Still, I can understand why it would prefer to blast Time Warner. It's so much easier to raise money when you can point the finger at a good corporate villain.” |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-05-20 12:08 |
| #6 Dinner: $35 Train Ticket: $150 Getting your business model crushed by Rantburg: Priceless. |
| Posted by: flash91 2010-05-20 10:51 |
| #5 $35 buys one meal for two? Hell, Sally Struthers can feed a kid for a month with $30. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-20 10:31 |
| #4 The cost of operation and living is lower in the Fly Over Country. With telecommuting and electronic video media you don't have to live, eat, print, and talk in that little corner cafe in NY or LA or Boston or the Beltway. Then again you'd be living among the community and culture you so despise like a disease, a disease that just years ago were the means to pay all the bills that now go unpaid. Maybe 'they' weren't the disease. Maybe 'they' weren't the parasites. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-20 07:53 |
| #3 And here I was thinking they removed journalism from the Skilled Occupation List because journalists no longer have to have any skill, but it's because they don't want foreign journalists coming in to compete for the jobs. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-05-20 07:51 |
| #2 Related: Australian government removes journalism from Skilled Occupation List Journalism no longer features on a list of occupations used by the Australian government to control which migrant workers can seek permanent residency in the country. Journalists are still eligible for permanent visas under the separate Employer Nomination Scheme Occupation List (ENSOL), which allows Australian employer's to sponsor overseas workers. But the new list will mean journalists will be unable to obtain a visa under the country's general migration scheme, which is "for people who are not sponsored by an employer and who have skills in particular occupations required in Australia". The reduction in occupations and removal of journalists from the SOL is a fair reflection of the "the times we are living in and the state of the news industry", Jonathan Este, director of communications with the Australian journalists union, the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance, told Journalism.co.uk. "The fact is that there are plenty of Australian journalists looking for jobs and plenty more in education who will be entering the employment market during the next few years," he said. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2010-05-20 03:01 |
| #1 From the letter: Take my word. I see the editors and publishing people in our New York office scarmbling. Wonder how much to send the Nation's Washington editor to a spelling/spell-check class? My favorite comment: "This is the worst news since they cancelled Mr. Ed." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-05-20 01:27 |