Saturday, March 29, 2008

Online Job Application

The following is an exercise in pure chutzpa and self-aggrandizement. Since presuming to write is an act of egotism anyway, what the heck. It's not like wearing tight sweaters and hanging around in Hollywood drug stores has been working out for me.


The publications tracked by Blogrunner are chosen by New York Times editors.
Interesting, Times editors--you also saw fit to use me as a source for your Virgina Tech gun rights analysis (although you omitted my main points). So--how about a job?

It's not like the same old "Authorized Journalism" is working any more, so why not try something new? Surely you're not so far into urban liberal elitism that you don't recognize alienation of a significant public demographic is bad for business?

You know that few issues are more "hot button" than gun rights. You know that every time the subject is broached, the letters pour in. That means high readership. And reader response is always passionate.

Now think of one columnist for a major newspaper focused exclusively on promoting the right to keep and bear arms. You’ll find none. Yet there are over 80 MILLION estimated gun owners in this country. This rich subject area is largely untapped.

You know I can do it--you have access to my work, and somebody with authority made the decision to reference me twice now in the past year.

So why not give it a try? 750 words, once a week? I work cheap and can give you something you've never had before.

Or do you get applications like this all the time?

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We now return to our regularly scheduled obscurity.

4 comments:

  1. I blog because I want my voice heard. I have no problems when people cut and paste my entire article on their site so long as (a) they attribute me correctly with a link and (b) they are not doing it for profit.

    I can even forgo (a).

    But when businesses start scraping my content and making a buck off of it, I start getting irritated.

    I need to put up a usage policy that indicates this.

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  2. This falls within my stated policy--I'm grateful for links and traffic.

    And while this was written with tongue in cheek, there is a core of truth and frustration--we get an occasional "conservative' column favoring RKBA, but nothing "regular." I truly do believe the issue is important enough and also consistently generates enough interest, heat and occasional light to where any major paper doing this (the right way) would find significant reader attention from both sides.

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  3. I met a chick once who said she'd give me something I'd never had before. Turned out to be Norovirus

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  4. Ah, but that's where reputation comes in, ptg. Just because something is unknown does not mean its unknowable.

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