bananas (b-a-n-a-n-a-s!)

i'm in the process of writing notes on online journalism. yes i've started studying! and it's only the sixth day of uni study break! i'm slowly making my way through a chapter of david conley's dirge-like textbook, the daily miracle: an introduction to journalism (2nd edt. though why anyone would agree to re-publish such convoluted and verbose writing is beyond me).

and i come across this:

"When the author was twenty he did an internship

with his small hometown newspaper in the USA.

This meant both writing stories and taking photographs."

how incredibly stupid does that sound? i mean, i know virginia woolf thought that "'I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being" (no really, she did), but come on--why the paranoid refusal to articulate that letter. the letter i. I. it makes me want to repeat the letter i (I I I I I) as many times as i can, like when my sisters and i used to shout 'die die die die die' at the tv's personified energizer battery whenever that ad came up and he said smugly 'never say die!'

wow, study makes me witty as. and hella sarcastic.

as if it's not enough to show the pretentious insecurity of a journalist scared of the 's' word (subjectivity), 'the author' continues thus:

"From the beginning it was clear that simultaneously

thinking text and pictures put me at a disadvantage

with other media that could send both a reporter

and a photographer to a news event."

like, what? so then he embraces 'me'? and goes on to use 'i' repeatedly, apparently without any qualms?


i can't be expected to work under these conditions.