An Army Of Fed-Up Journalists

The Bitter Photographer may be on hiatus, but rest assured: bitter journalists abound.

A new Web site called AngryJournalist.com provides a space for journos to vent about their jobs. The site has just one rule — that posters don't use real names. (The other implied rule seems to be that you must be very, very bitter to post.)

Here's a small sampling of a posters who are angry about the state of photojournalism:

Angry Journalist #197 is "angry because I travel an hour out of town, take two hours worth of photos, drive an hour back and only get one photo published."

Angry Journalist #250 writes:

I’m a student photojournalist and lab manager. The printers don’t match the monitors, people don’t know Indesign or Photoshop. The printer prints too yellow or blue or green or magenta or not at all. Wait the server doesn’t work. Pro Tools doesn’t work but we don’t have the money to upgrade to fix it.

And I love multimedia…but don’t like video.

Angry Journalist #166 is "angry because of the terrible quality of photos that are chosen to run in dailies all across the nation because editors are too cheap to actually pay for a photographer. A reporter with a 1 megapixel camera is NOT a photographer!"

Angry Journalist #129 is mad about "the copy desk butchering my photos … I have no say in the layout of the page. We are without a photo editor."

And that's just the start of it. To see the other 265-plus reasons why journalists are fed up, click here. Or better yet, vent— though we hope your predicament isn't that miserable.

Comments

[Brian]

I am soo glad mine caught your eye...
I'm number 129 but could have very well been 197

[Laura Nathan]

So much for anonymity! ;)

[Sharon P. Fibelkorn]

What a great find! I like to think of this as "We Are Not Alone" and Angry Journalist #197 could be oh so many photogs I know.

I personally often wonder why we photographers have to submit THOUSANDS of pictures only to have one chosen. Is it want? or is it need? I think that's the question everyone should start asking themselves.

[Shaun Krisher]

@Sharon

It's because if we just submit the best shots, the editor comes back with "Do you have anything else (that's crappier)?"