{"id":8971,"date":"2019-01-25T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:36:03","slug":"hacks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8971\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears nobody wants to pay to run adverts alongside pieces denouncing all men as violent, racist, scumbags, much less pay to read them:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Like so many talented and lovely journalists, I was laid off today.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for an opinion editor with a huge and diverse rolodex, or a columnist with 10 years of writing about gender politics (and a literal PhD in romantic comedies) under her belt, talk to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chloe Angyal (@ChloeAngyal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChloeAngyal\/status\/1088460893443239936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThat someone in modern journalism should cite 10 years wittering on about gender politics and a PhD in romantic comedies as achievements explains a lot about why these redundancies are being made. Here&#8217;s another (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1088550329325477888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rita Panahi<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HuffPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HuffPost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that all these gender politics reporters insist on living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan, or other expensive liberal cities. Perhaps if they&#8217;d moved their operations to Colonsville, KY they&#8217;d feel less financially shafted? And I&#8217;m sure this helped:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Also I was technically management for the last couple years, but let me say that unionizing the newsroom was the single most positive thing to happen to HuffPost as a workplace in my 8+ years here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Maygers (@bmaygers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bmaygers\/status\/1088474535639298049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s poor form to mock those who&#8217;ve just been made redundant, I am not too concerned about these people. The only way to get a job in New York writing about gender politics is to have wealthy parents who can fund the lifestyle your salary won&#8217;t support. Indeed, full-time jobs in media companies filter out those who don&#8217;t have wealthy parents by first stipulating a period of unpaid internship. And who do you think paid for that PhD in romantic comedies? I doubt this lot have been financially independent in their lives, and getting booted from what is effectively a paid hobby won&#8217;t change that. Their egos might take a knock though, so spare a thought for them as you kneel to pray this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears nobody wants to pay to run adverts alongside pieces denouncing all men as violent, racist, scumbags, much less pay to read them: Like so many talented and lovely journalists, I was laid off today. 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