Look, I know this blog is supposed to be be about pop culture and in a way, this rant is. You see, I have many interests. Despite feeling myself more qualified than most to discuss music (check the degree, yo!), I'm a walking hockey encyclopedia.
I majored in music, I've played in several bands, I own several instruments, but my main passion is hockey.
The frustration that's been building has to do with my workplace.
It's the newsroom of a daily newspaper with a respectable circulation. We used to have a high turnover rate, where young reporters fresh from J-school (that's short for "journalism school") often bounce from paper to paper before settling down.
There also has been a trend of inside "promotion" from sports to news.
From being in this department seven years, I know of three managers who have moved "up" from sports editor positions and two reporters who have also moved into "real" news from the wonderful world of sports.
It seems that moving away from the Sports department is a promotion. Most people agree.
However, I know of two sports journalists - one who's been here 25+ years and another 10+ - who have not expressed any desire in covering anything else.
These two appear so very one-dimensional. They will engage people in conversation, mostly about college football/golf (the 25+year guy) and high school sports (the other one) giving off the appearance that they just don't know anything else.
Our local minor-pro baseball beat writer can talk about other stuff, and I know one of the high school writers used to cover agribusiness.
But these two people are so simple-minded in their quest to appear all-knowing. Granted, they know who to seek out with this stuff. There are many people here - especially ex-sports staffers - who want the diversion from stuff like city council meetings and shootings and will discuss these things at length with the "experts" who must be so cozy in the "wwos" that they refuse to be moved out.
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