That said, that one listicle he wrote for Mental Floss is on a fuckin' Reddit thread. We want to make things a little better. I mean, you could probably craigslist that shit. Or, you know, write a medium article and call it a business proposal. It's not like these articles can't be written.
It’s not easy to be a freelance journalist in New York. You choose to go it alone. You decide to be your own agent, pitch editor, and boss. You also probably choose to hang out in your apartment for days at a time, escaping only for bagels as a reward for finished deadlines.
Not so much hate as laughing at the folly of it all. He got paid to write that tripe. I'm sort of envious that I'm not in on the 'spew nonsense get paid' bandwagon. Then again when I look in the mirror, the guy looking back at me is not disgusted by what he sees. It is also a disgust with the use of Reddit threads and Twitter feeds as a source for a news article. That is one of a whole list of reasons why CNN comes off as a high school level news source.
I would love to be a writer of some description, but this right here is the wall that I haven't yet been able to climb, i.e. how to be more signal than noise.