Warren you write the best stuff , I love plain language . You are more than a pretty webpage address on the inter web .Ideas and opinion , fire one , boom.Fire for effect , boom, boom, boom. Targets still there , crap.
Old guys tying to sound young is usually creepy .Wouldn't want anyone to to think they are being lured . The best thing about being old is you don't give a crap about stuff like that. We had the this 60 something M.E. who wore a traditional business suit and overcoat and a baseball cap to work . It just wasn't right. Gota think visual , language used is part of the word package . I am reading The Best American Sports Writing of the Century , a collection of columns and stories , mostly about the greatest in sports , before the greatest in sports on TV . The language of these eras is pretty cool and far out. These writers used words in a newspaper that I needed to look up. No apologies, for my language ,by the way how the hell can i dust off my brain , my hair gets mussed up.I tried , really . There must be some virtual cleaners , I'll need industrial strength , send me the site. This century is only 12 years old ,there are reporters not much older than that who still need to be driven around.Not really . Many have concerns about the nuts , bolts and politics of the job. Don't have to learn everything from scratch. Online doesn't GET the footdragging by the print elite that hired them , or why unions struggle with them , or why new media falls unhappily behind when it should be driving forward full throttle .The concept of "just do it , with no money" didn't come from Nike .Seriously even people under 35 are starting to dislike change . Running a business that has been in recession for 5 years , new job classifications for a money losing business that is growing but is also causing the decline of the profitable core business . Layoffs .Increasing expenses and ever reducing income is causing everything to lurch ahead , with foot on the brakes while giving it enough gas to prevent from stalling . Still trying to attract new talent while trying to retain the best already in the camp. Yikes ! Just depressed myself , get me a drink and an antidepressant ! Yet people are still up for the challenge everyday .Hard concepts for someone under 35. Previous language was way too strong. The idea being that people are trying to cope with print and online and the contradictions piled on contradictions .Ownership , managers and workers are balancing on a tightrope over a very big falls made up of rising costs , and recession coupled with rapid expansion of new media .The first reaction is hard wired for cannibalism when working to find a workable survival strategy is essential .WE have to think wireless , not hard wire . This is Air Canada vs WestJet .Revolution , Baby
The older members of every company will be gone soon enough.
The arc of a news photographer , young and dumb , fast and fearless ,
looks at the photog ten years older , leaving a five everyday with kids that have to be picked up from school or daycare and brought to hockey , dance or what ever. The young guy snarls and spits out 9to5er.
Ten years later , he is the guy with kids that have to get to things .
With each generation coming up wanting to eat the last , they end up the same .Each one takes on the characteristics of the former . They end up the same because the walk the exact same path, they work in exactly the same system and it produces the exact same result . Systems that do not change , change people. 50% will divorce, some will suffer from alcoholism ,others , if they are lucky only depression , many will just leave . So change the systems . People in their late 50's have the hardest time with change , i noticed that 30 years ago. Things I care about deepley are the pictures , everything else I struggle to understand . I also try to help the new ones because this business is hard .They help me back , just got an iPhone and people are lining up with advice . It all works in personal systems . Yet we have to imagine a different kind of product for the future , but most cannot. I am not making any friends but there is progress. Be ready the next five years will be the hardest .
We live in a cordial dog-eat-dog system ,and cannibalism is normal and praised . And yet we survive and thrive in the life we choose because it beats going through the same things in other places , experiencing nothing , seeing nothing , in a life spent SITTING DOWN in one place .
Topic: The 21st century beckons (Read 1692 times)