THE PLANK DECEMBER 18, 2007
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We're about to start accepting applications for the 2008-2009 reporter-researcher session, so if you're a young journalist with some experience fact-checking and a passion for political journalism, send us your stuff! Details are here.
-- The Editors.
14 comments
Ah, if I were 25 years younger....
- thejauntyboulevardier
December 18, 2007 at 1:09pm
Any chance "fact-checking" can be interpreted as "fact-making-upping?" If so, I'm your man!
- adaglas
December 18, 2007 at 1:15pm
adaglas -- Actually, I think that slot is open too!
- epackard-02
December 18, 2007 at 1:24pm
Shouldn't you also hire an IT professional who can straighten out your website?
- davidsmith192
December 18, 2007 at 1:56pm
folks, if Kirchick can work here and get promoted (!) then shee-at, we could be running the funhouse is a mere few months...
- thejauntyboulevardier
December 18, 2007 at 2:02pm
Well, I am fairly young but I unfortunately have no journalism experience. Unless working as a radar analyst counts as journalism experience. In which case I am your man!
- doubtofbuddha
December 18, 2007 at 2:31pm
Thanks epackard! That means you can soon look forward to my hard-hitting expose on Giuliani's ties to the Stonecutters, my heartwarming tale of the wooden boy brought to life by the power of Christian prayer, and all the tawdry details of my torrid romance with Scarlett Johannsen.
(And to think, I honestly used to be a professional journalist...well, sportswriter.)
- adaglas
December 18, 2007 at 2:47pm
Where's Elspeth? Let's get fact-checkers and reporters. Good idea.
- Robert Powell
December 18, 2007 at 4:07pm
Israel good! Israel's critics bad!
How's that? Am I hired yet? More? Okay, try this:
Israel's critics' critics good!
More? Okay, but this is getting tedious...
- williamyard
December 18, 2007 at 4:09pm
Hmmm...I do have experience in political journalism. But I just signed a lease, and, frankly, am in too much debt to work for some $300 a week. Unless, of course, the masses call for me to right this ship.
(deafening silence, absent even the tumbleweed, too disgusted to roll across)
- boneill
December 18, 2007 at 4:23pm
riffing on Yard...
Carter BAD BAD BAD
Baker BAD BAD BAD
Kerry BAD BAD BAD
Kofi BAD BAD BAD
Jesse BAD BAD BAD
Al BAD BAD BAD
Sy Hersh BAD BAD BAD
New York Sun GOOD GOOD GOOD
WSJ GOOD GOOD GOOD
Mark Steyn GOOD GOOD GOOD
Arabs BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD...
Iran INVADE INVADE INVADE
Iraq GOOD GOOD GOOD
Democrats WIMPS WIMPS WIMPS
Neocons MISUNDERSTOOD MISUNDERSTOOD MISUNDERSTOOD.
Now, mr. yard, you're hired...
- thejauntyboulevardier
December 18, 2007 at 4:57pm
Wow, times are tough.
The New Republic is looking for Reporter-Researchers and is willing to pay the District of Columbia minimum wage of $ 7.00/Hour.
If the assignment goes into July 25, 2008 you get a raise to $ 7.55/hour, or an extra $ 22/week.
I had a lot of respect for these writers here until I found out how cheap they work. This explains a lot of the weak stuff here on the Plank.
For an orginization that promotes universal health care coverage and higher minimum wages, you would think TNR could go $ 8, $9 or $ 10 an hour.
But what do I know, they are getting me to write for free.
- CRS9TNR
December 18, 2007 at 6:04pm
if I can do the job from my home for one or two hours a day count me in. And I can fact-check real good, I can spell googel and wipipedea real quick.
- blackton
December 19, 2007 at 10:31am
If they're paying $7.55 an hour for Reporter/Researcher, how much you reckon they pay the idiots who have made it virtually impossible to post comments on articles? I suspect they got illegal immigrants from a Innuit reservation's computer training school who live in the basement and get paid in blubber.
- Robert Powell
December 19, 2007 at 2:13pm