What anger looks like
I’m not an angry journalist, but it’s hard not to be drawn to the alternately sad/funny/heartless/clueless screeds at AngryJournalist.com. Seeking some aggregate wisdom from the 2,794 comments posted to date, I captured all the venom and slammed it through TagCrowd (omitting various forms of the words “angry” and “journalist”). The result (click a tag to see where it appears in comments):
being (237) better (182) boss (181) business (161) care (142) college (121) copy (132) doesn’t (179) editor (632) enough (124) ever (141) fucking (283) getting (197) going (240) hate (244) idea (122) industry (184) job (524) local (125) love (159) media (152) money (191) news (464) newspaper (453) newsroom (171) oh (137) paper (443) pay (196) people (762) public (153) publisher (129) readers (166) real (156) really (230) reporters (183) school (143) shit (124) site (169) someone (149) something (219) staff (128) story (668) things (156) think (393) today (126) web (177) work (883) world (136) writing (155) years (496)
created at TagCrowd.com
Glad to know the web doesn’t figure as large in people’s anger as I might have guessed, but I’m not encouraged by the relative sizes of love and hate.
Update (2008.04.02): There aren’t enough posts at HappyJournalist.com to turn out a good cloud. C’mon, people!