The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29801   Message #378834
Posted By: wysiwyg
21-Jan-01 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: Any old ex-hacks out there?
Subject: RE: Any old ex-hacks out there?
Copy writer, copy editor, proofreader, print production manager, markup.... technical writing... grants... speeches... then PR. I used to call it being a wordmonger.

(Rant on):

Now, however, I prefer the term Media Slut. A Red Cross press campaign and multiple releases churned out within a half hour of a fatal housefire-- to raise money of course-- and dispatching another caseworker to help the fam instead of going to help them myself-- when your hands get that dirty, you're past hack all the way to sloppy seconds.

(Rant off.) I suppose since I don't talk about this side of my experience it's only fair I get tagged as a pollyanna. Surprise!

~S~