This is amazing. Must memorize. Where did I hide my index cards?
• Comments are worthless vitriol and they degrade the work of journalists.
• Never link to your competitors, you’re just giving them traffic!
• Social media is a fad. Investing in it now will be a waste of time and money when it all goes bottom-up.
• A blog is not a tool for journalism, it is for people in robes writing about their cats.
• Citizen journalists suck. They’re biased! They have opinions and everything. Act like they own politics.
From:
The ultimate guide to newspaper curmudgeon talking points — Eat Sleep Publish.
Don’t forget to forward me anything you hear that isn’t already on the list! I’m pretty good at answering them, but I sure don’t hear the complaints as often as many others do.
Thanks for the link love ;)