Englishland

I'm taking three 3 credit courses this summer.

English, Sociology and Life, Death and Dying. Each has their own unique good parts and bad parts, but today the fury that filled my heart came from my smart-ass English teacher who will remain nameless.  I will however, tell you he has a PH.D. which apparently, makes him a credible source.

 Now I like the guy, but he seemed to be insulting my hopeful dreams of some day being a professional broadcaster or journalist.

Opinions are like Assholes, everyone has one. But that's not the point. He pointed out that "You're wasting your time reading a blog it's just an opinion. It's not a cold hard fact."

 Well my feeling to that comment, was this:

If you didn't have one, our country would suck. Everyone would be the same, think the same, and not actually be able to think for themselves at all. Is that what you want, Sir? Well, I'm not down for living in a black and white world. I'm into living in color thank you very much.

 I don't know if this one was on purpose, but Living in Color is A. Elizabeth Baumeister's blog, so I do believe I will give her credit for that even if it was just a metaphor. That too is an OPINION from her perspective and everyone's perspective is valuable, not worthless.

Apparently broadcasters/newscasters and journalists have no idea what they're talking about. And that we have a bias.

Newsflash: Everything has a bias.  We keep our opinions OUT of the news, which apparently he is unaware of.

Apparently news reporters are  just "bimbos" that read off a teleprompter. I'm talking about real reporters. Reporters who wrote the story, researched the story, gathered quotes, and memorized the story. In 15 minutes.There's a handheld camera that's too freiken small to be able to put a teleprompter on that, Dr.

 Writers sometimes only have half an hour to get the accurate info and put it into a story. SOe xcuse me if there's a typo in our work here and there. If there is a typo, I'd like to believe that you can be forgiven. We don't have the time constraints that the scientific community has. We have these things called deadlines.

 Oh, yea, we're not English majors, so sorry for screwing up the MLA format. Wordy paragraphs and parentheses in the middle of the sentence. Yea, that's not (Captain Coolblade 76)annoying. Citing your sources is one thing, but making me try to figure out what (Smith 89) is in the middle of my...what was I saying? . I just lost my train of thought.

Writing is cut and dry. Everything that makes an intersting piece doesn't matter, because no one cares about creative leads,anecdotes, or feelings in Englishland.  Just leave them at the door.

They aren't in print, so let's not take them into account.   It's only boring plain text. Not writing, but TEXT. That makes reading and writing a CHORE, and not a joy.

The other thing that urked me, was that sometimes "journals" of some sort are more credible to a "magazine." This is how i thought of it. And that I think is pure bullshit.

Journals are very specific peice of writing that you only read if you're knowledgable on the subject(s).

Journals are written by experts. They sit on their butts all day with the time in the world to get it absolutly perfect.  50 people read it, because they sit on their butt all day to edit this stuff. There is no pressure.

Magazines are written by writers. Also, deadlines exist, it's due on this day. If there's a typo, so be it. I can't sit on my ass all day showing this to 50 people. I have room for two.

In journalism, you attribute your source. In MLA you write it like a code. In a foreign language. We call this English.

Flirting with frustration is something that I am quite prone to. Stupid reasons for stupid things. Who gives a flying fuck about if there is a comma after the parenthetical citation?

Or was it a period...