David Carr at Samizdata - How to get ahead in journalism
Journalism is a dog-eat-dog business these days. Lack of talent is no longer enough. No, you have to do something truly original and spectacular in order to get noticed.Who indeed?
Take, for example, Osama Bin Laden. After years of fruitless struggle (and the customary mound of polite rejection letters) he has finally been rewarded with his own column in the Guardian:
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Employing him was clearly the right decision. Who else can boast such an enticing combination of political commentary, history and anti-Western rhetoric?
