So, weeks ago, I got tickets to this afternoon’s taping of the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which is my new favorite talk show, by a country mile, thanks to the wonders of TiVo.
Weeeeeell, so much for that idea: I got a call about a gun found in a local high school. The inestimable Gretchen Losi at the Daily Press won’t be back in until tomorrow, so this one falls on my shoulders.
Eh, I didn’t really need to see Shannen Doherty anyway. Amy Smart on Wednesday would have been awesome, though.
Damned selfish accused criminals …
Seriously though, this was an easy decision to make, and my inconvenience is nothing compared to the importance of this news, but it was ironic that one of the few scenarios that would have kept me in the office this afternoon (the taping begins at 3 in Hollywood) happened.
- Update: OK, I’m now on for Monday, September 25. Let’s try this again …
For anyone curious about whatever happened to former Daily Press editor-in-chief Don Ray, he has a blog.
Congratulations to Peter, who received a very snazzy award for his desk last night at the monthly staff meeting for the Daily Press family of papers!
- And happy birthday to Kasey Kay, my neice, on her first birthday yesterday.
Here’s an irony, or maybe just a simple reason:
One of the things that readers and critics consistently say the press needs to do a better job discussing are the nitty-gritty of finances and other numerical issues. “Dig in there and make sense of that budget! Tell us what the reports on school scores actually mean!”
There’s not a lot of accountants writing in the nation’s newsrooms. My math education ended with Algebra II, because my brain just melted when it came time to try trigonometry, much less calculus. (I did take statistics in college, along with everyone on the Virginia Tech basketball and football teams.)
But I agree with the critics and readers. Someone does need to dig into this stuff, if only because we can catch (the more obvious) hanky panky and let readers know how their tax dollars are being spent in general. In the absence of a crusading accountant bursting into the newsroom — Do accountants burst into rooms? I can’t imagine that they do. — it falls to us and our algebra-level math educations.
But, wow, I need an Aleve.
These sorts of things are always pretty subjective based on always incomplete criteria — the fact that they rank working for Electronic Arts as a great job is a howler to everyone I know in that industry — but Money Magazine has listed the best 50 jobs in America.
The top 10 include:
- Software engineer
- College professor
- Financial advisor
- Human resource manager
- Physicians’ assistant
- Market research analyst
- Computer/IT analyst
- Real estate appraiser
- Pharmacist
- Psychologist
Coming in at #195 are journalists, just below librarians and just ahead of sociologists.
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