Your eyes do not deceive you. It’s me again, I promise. An unknown crazy person has not hijacked this lovely blog. I’m B A C K. Me. Known crazy person. Yahoo!

Feels good, doesn’t it? I know.

It’s my new season resolution (because I forgot to make a yearly one in January). Write more for me and my adoring fans (thanks, mom) and write less for money-hungry media suits. Call me selfish.

The second half of that resolution is, at the moment, beyond my control. The newspaper industry is bleeding and my budding career was nipped when more focus was placed on dollars and cents rather than common sense.

So, it’s been a couple weeks since the guillotine came down on nearly a third of the editorial department at my old workplace, and I’m ready to take my freshly severed sexy head down a new, sunnier path.

Gosh, bleeding industry, chopped heads? I swear this experience has not made me a violent sociopath.

Time to get up, brush myself off, put some fake eyelashes on and dance a merry jig with my pen and notebook in hand. Today, I work for myself. And, I write for you.

I think this ‘recession’ business deserves a little room on this cozy bloggy space.

What is with all this knee-jerk reaction to cut cut cut by laying off loyal employees because the dollars aren’t rolling in like they used to? I’m talking specifically about the media sector here. Although I truly feel for all those manufacturing industry types whose careers were destroyed faster than george w. bush’s reputation.

Quite frankly, I’m worried about the newspaper industry and I’m shaking in my stilettos over the future of my career. I’m not the kind of person whose professional endeavors are going straight to DVD. I’m a breakout blockbuster, bitch.

At the expense of sounding naive - since when are journalists considered expensive frills for newspapers or magazines?

“You guys cost the company money,” casually said one friend as we discussed my recent beheading from the masthead. “Of course they’re going to cut you first.”

Huh?

I’m appalled at the idea that any self-respecting newspaper owners would cut good journalists before sales people or *shock* their own ‘comfortable’ salaries.

No offense to all you fabulous sales people. One love. I just think publishers should treat us all fairly, make decisions based on what is best for a publication AND a community, cut evenly, if you must and for goodness sake, stop rewarding sales people every second with company jollies and give your reporters fresh pens once in a while, would you?

L x

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