What’s the most depressing sentence in this story?
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Don’t know if its depressing, but I cotton to this one: “Draegin quickly cranked out four paragraphs emphasizing that the “octomom” had decided to give all eight babies the same middle name — Angel.”
“The 2007 University of Florida graduate also had to remind the 1975 Washington University graduate to scroll through Google Trends before she wrote the tag and headline.
“She took a whole course in this in college,” Draegin said with a deep sigh. “And to think, I took European intellectual history.”
“This accomplished magazine editor lost her six-figure job at TV Guide last spring and is now, at 55, an unpaid intern at wowOwow.com, a fledgling website with columns and stories that target accomplished women older than 40.”
Six figures at TV guide…nice to know where the bucks are in publishing.
It’s weird that she thinks she is going to need these mundane web skills. Or that that author wants us to think she is going to need these skills. It’s like she’s training to be an editorial assistant when she most likely has vastly more valuable skills. Does she think she will never be an senior-type editor (who never need to look at google trends or capture screens) again? Because of her age? Or is she just taking a educational vacation?
Don’t know if its depressing, but I cotton to this one: “Draegin quickly cranked out four paragraphs emphasizing that the “octomom” had decided to give all eight babies the same middle name — Angel.”
— talboito · Mar 6, 10:09 PM · #
My pick, by the way:
“The 2007 University of Florida graduate also had to remind the 1975 Washington University graduate to scroll through Google Trends before she wrote the tag and headline.
“She took a whole course in this in college,” Draegin said with a deep sigh. “And to think, I took European intellectual history.”
— Conor Friedersdorf · Mar 6, 10:15 PM · #
“This accomplished magazine editor lost her six-figure job at TV Guide last spring and is now, at 55, an unpaid intern at wowOwow.com, a fledgling website with columns and stories that target accomplished women older than 40.”
Six figures at TV guide…nice to know where the bucks are in publishing.
— Gary Ancelin · Mar 7, 12:24 AM · #
It’s weird that she thinks she is going to need these mundane web skills. Or that that author wants us to think she is going to need these skills. It’s like she’s training to be an editorial assistant when she most likely has vastly more valuable skills. Does she think she will never be an senior-type editor (who never need to look at google trends or capture screens) again? Because of her age? Or is she just taking a educational vacation?
— cw · Mar 7, 05:56 AM · #
“She’s my mentor,” Draegin said of 24-year-old Bernfeld.
“No, she’s my mentor,” Bernfeld replied.
Ouch.
— Bill Goodwin · Mar 10, 07:53 PM · #