Overheard
source: http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-l...
Journalism is a profession for storytellers, and our newsroom culture celebrates romantic myths that are generally hostile to structure. We enjoy jockeying with authority, poking bureaucrats and annoying anal-retentive city editors. Few journalists are good with numbers, and we don’t see that as a weakness. It’s all part of a rebellious “ink-stained wretch” identity that hasn’t reflected reality in at least a generation, if in fact it ever did.