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RantRank: 67 - I guess so (35 votes)
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Submitted by AngryJourno
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You know what? Journalists think you're stupid. I can't speak for every country (and based on the insane-gibberish slang on some of these posts, at least a few of you "wanks" are from the UK or another of those Mr. Bean-sounding countries), but in the good old U.S. of A., every reporter in every newspaper thinks you're a gibbering simp. You know how I know? Because I'm a reporter.
For going on eight goddamned years, I've listened to editors whittle out every bit of individuality or expression in copy on the pretext that "our readers won't understand this." I've heard reporter after reporter use the term "Bubbas" for the people who obliged THEM by appearing in THEIR person-on-the-street quote. You're walking down the street and a reporter accosts you with a question? You're going to be called a "Bubba" later. The slang for a story that will be discussed the next day is a "Hey, Martha!"
Reporters are told to write at a third-grade level because they think you won't understand otherwise. When I started, it was a sixth-grade level.
First of all, you doctors and lawyers and manual laborers who just read a lot, you're not stupid. In fact, you're probably a lot smarter than most of these reporters at American newspapers if for no other reason than YOU'RE NOT A REPORTER AT AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER!
Secondly, none of these assholes connect their disdain for their readers with the sorry state of American media. Oh, you treat your readers like morons? How's that working out for you?
I'm applying for a job with this one newspaper, a daily that decides ponderous "storyteller" copy is the key to success. And I have to write an essay as part of the application. I'm later told by the M.E. that my essay was good even though at the beginning she thought it was going to just be me pulling out every big word I knew.
I used the words "emote" and "intuit." I wouldn't call them big words. But this is the level of people you're dealing with. These are people who consider themselves both populist and smarter than everybody else.
Journalism is a draining, bitter job. How the hell do these people do it when they think their audience is too stupid to understand their pearls of wisdom?
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RantRank: 74 - I guess so (44 votes)
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Submitted by Can't do this
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I'm angry right now but it's a sad angry. It's an I don't know what to do angry. I have all my life had very abusive cult like parents. I have seven brothers and sisters and all but one of them hate me.
I usually can stay out of confrontation by locking myself up in my room and staying out of it, but tonight it went too far. I just blew up. I was actually getting ATTACKED for helping someone out, because someone else was feeling like shit for not helping that person out. It's a fucked up story I'm not gonna bother writing.
But at this point I'm ready to drop out of highschool and leave this house (I'm seventeen). I'm sorry to say that I wish they would all fucking drop dead. Every single one of them, and their friends. The things that I have been through are not worth this. I can't do this a day longer.
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RantRank: 38 - I guess so (23 votes)
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Submitted by Fate Wrathblade
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Hey Fate Wrathblade back, to rant about girls, but in a different aspect.
Why is it that they cant leave something thats perfect? it seems that if something is going fine they have to pick and prod till something goes wrong and complain, the more they do it the more u dont like them and it just pisses me off. she seemed like sucha good girl but all she does now is complain and i just punch my punching bag to cool down. And it makes me like other people. ARGHHHH WHY CANT U FUCKING RELAXX YOU HAVE ME BITCH NOW SIT DOWN.
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RantRank: 140 - I guess so (59 votes)
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Submitted by Anonymous
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I hate how we have this great high definition technology to display 1920x1080, then the idiots making the films decide to use a different ratio and thus make pointless hundreds of thousands of pixels that YOU the consumer paid for.. asdkasdjh
I understand that some film it has to do with the film used in the cameras, BUT WE HAVE RED CAMERAS!!! Digital cameras that capture at the correct ratio way beyond 1080P....
Irritating.
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RantRank: 221 - True...true... (75 votes)
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Submitted by Anoanymous
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Dear Boyfriend,
I love you. I know you love me. I know I am the most important woman in your life. However the fact you talk to your ex girlfriend every night when I'm sitting right behind you upsets me. The fact you let her flirt and make sexual passes on you without mentioning that I'm in the room upsets me. The fact that you think about her fondly, the fact that you don't seem to care it annoys me, and the fact that you haven't moved on from her after three years of seperation and two years with me..upsets me. Let her go. Please. Fuck. She's a skank, she's going to hurt you, and you don't seem to be helping yourself. Stop letting her make a new relationship. Let her go. Move on. I can't put up with this forver.
Signed,
your girlfriend.
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RantRank: 105 - I guess so (50 votes)
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Submitted by Mike
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This is to the jackass neighbor down the street. Me and some friends were trying to build some bike jumps in the empty field, not damaging anything, not hurting anyone, and you had to complain. You not only complained, you took a picture of us and my license plate, you yelled in our faces, and then called the cops on us. Are you really so stupid that you think the cops have nothing better to do? All you do anyway is sit around all day on your fat ass watching TV. Well I don't care anymore, I'll continue to build bike jumps there and whatever the hell else I feel like doing in that field, go ahead and call the cops, they never show up anyway.
P.S. We're the ones who egged your house =P
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RantRank: 163 - I guess so (73 votes)
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Submitted by JMZ
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I'm tired of feeling so crazy inside that I have to tear everyone esle around me down to unleash my feelings of anger, I dont know where to channel it...
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RantRank: 227 - Rant on (58 votes)
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Submitted by Can't do this
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I'm angry right now but it's a sad angry. It's an I don't know what to do angry. I have all my life had very abusive cult like parents. I have seven brothers and sisters and all but one of them hate me.
I usually can stay out of confrontation by locking myself up in my room and staying out of it, but tonight it went too far. I just blew up. I was actually getting ATTACKED for helping someone out, because someone else was feeling like shit for not helping that person out. It's a fucked up story I'm not gonna bother writing.
But at this point I'm ready to drop out of highschool and leave this house (I'm seventeen). I'm sorry to say that I wish they would all fucking drop dead. Every single one of them, and their friends. The things that I have been through are not worth this. I can't do this a day longer.
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RantRank: 205 - True...true... (66 votes)
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Submitted by Experienced
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My sister, the narcissist; the psychopath.
The vicious liar. The traitor. The deceiver. The mother. I pray for my abused niece, our abused mother, and myself.
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RantRank: 15 - True...true... (6 votes)
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Submitted by Chloe
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I have an older sister who I must share a room with and she is lazy I
can clean the room everyday but she throws her stuff on the floor I'm
the one who has to clean it up everyday we have to do chores I'm the
one who ends up doing it all I want her out of the room the only thing
she does is watch TV
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