Summary
The funny part is people's horror over my return of the hatred. They think that I'm supposed to soak it up and remain "professional," but I can't find those "professional" standards in any of the books on professional journalism. In college, I learned about libel, the inverted pyramid, newspaper versus magazine style, etc., but nothing about being nice to idiots who hate you.
When people haven't witnessed a social situation I describe, I often hear: "Why don't you go to different places?" How stupid is it to assume that all the people with poor social behavior go to the same places and that my conundrum is as simple as gong to new places? How equally stupid to assume that I am speaking only of my experience or that if the idiot emailing me hasn't seen it, it doesn't exist?Then there's: "If you can't take the heat, stop writing. That is part of being a journalist." Again, I really don't remember that class when I was studying journalism. No professor ever admonished us that we would be obligated to take the insults and stupid comments from idiots as part of our journalistic oath. Wait-there was no oath.See the full content of this document
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The Bridge; I'm an Ass
Hello, my name is Darryl James and I'm an ass.
(Hi Darryl!)Well, I'm here at the AA (Asses Anonymous) meeting because the people who email me with stupidity and ignorance keep telling me I'm an ass and no matter what I say, they keep com...See the full content of this document
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