Nick Greenizan
@ngreenizan.bsky.social
There are too many social media platforms nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
I didn't write this too-long thread to trash any paper/editor. I still have friends in the industry. They do good work. But I see stuff like this & it makes me realize how far things have fallen. Working in media is hard, it can be demoralizing, but one thing you can still do is care.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I didn't write this too-long thread to trash any paper/editor. I still have friends in the industry. They do good work. But I see stuff like this & it makes me realize how far things have fallen. Working in media is hard, it can be demoralizing, but one thing you can still do is care.
Anyways, all this is to say that one thing that really wore me down before I left the industry in '22 was hearing "Who cares" whenever I tried to play quality-control guy. From some editors, definitely from some publishers, etc. It became demoralizing for many of us, so we left.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Anyways, all this is to say that one thing that really wore me down before I left the industry in '22 was hearing "Who cares" whenever I tried to play quality-control guy. From some editors, definitely from some publishers, etc. It became demoralizing for many of us, so we left.
(As an example of this claim: Once, the CEO of my former company called to yell at my editor after left-leaning editorial ran on some subject or another. I believe his exact words were "What is this commy bullshit doing in my paper?!?!!")
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
(As an example of this claim: Once, the CEO of my former company called to yell at my editor after left-leaning editorial ran on some subject or another. I believe his exact words were "What is this commy bullshit doing in my paper?!?!!")
My other theory is that said newspaper chain (like all of 'em) is owned by Conservative leaning people, who in my experience would occasionally try to influence newsrooms, which would explain why Rustad, who isn't even the premier, got the entire front page.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My other theory is that said newspaper chain (like all of 'em) is owned by Conservative leaning people, who in my experience would occasionally try to influence newsrooms, which would explain why Rustad, who isn't even the premier, got the entire front page.
pagination at these papers is now outsourced to god knows where, beyond the newsroom. Editors and reporters have less control - though they still should've left instructions to do it properly.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
pagination at these papers is now outsourced to god knows where, beyond the newsroom. Editors and reporters have less control - though they still should've left instructions to do it properly.
Now, I don't know why these stories ran the way they ran - I'm not in the newsroom. But I have some guesses. Firstly, lack of attention to detail. Maybe due to time/capacity/being overworked, I couldn't say for sure, obviously. Maybe it never even crossed the editor's mind, which is troubling but...
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Now, I don't know why these stories ran the way they ran - I'm not in the newsroom. But I have some guesses. Firstly, lack of attention to detail. Maybe due to time/capacity/being overworked, I couldn't say for sure, obviously. Maybe it never even crossed the editor's mind, which is troubling but...
In my 20 years working at papers, this would've been what we'd have done 100 times out of 100. Under my old editor, who isn't here to tag, it would have been top of mind. One of the most important things with two stories like this.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In my 20 years working at papers, this would've been what we'd have done 100 times out of 100. Under my old editor, who isn't here to tag, it would have been top of mind. One of the most important things with two stories like this.
Not really. It would've been easy to start both stories - which are political, thus making fairness even more important than usual - on the same section front page, giving each one half, and turning each to the following left-hand page, where story 'turns' go.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Not really. It would've been easy to start both stories - which are political, thus making fairness even more important than usual - on the same section front page, giving each one half, and turning each to the following left-hand page, where story 'turns' go.