Re: Baffling local news stories
Posted: Sun 13 Jun, 2010 15.39
its like those people you see on LA Ink etc getting Tattoos of their loved ones (including pets).
Naked protest shocks cafe patrons
A WOMAN has stripped off naked in front of dozens of people having breakfast at a popular Darwin restaurant.
Witnesses said the woman took off all her clothes after she and another woman had a full-on fist fight over a man yesterday.
"That was just a shocker," eyewitness Fernando Dentes, 34, said. "People were trying to eat."
Police said a 39-year-old woman had to be picked up from the median strip on Dick Ward Drive after she bared all in front of the Cool Spot Cafe in Fannie Bay.
The patrons were reportedly unimpressed. Children were rushed inside the venue and police were called to escort the naked woman away.
The woman was lying naked on the ground smoking a cigarette in full view of customers at the restaurant.
Three uniformed officers, in a paddy wagon and a sedan, arrived at the scene before giving the woman an on-the-spot fine and taking her to her home to Moulden, in Palmerston.
It is unclear whether she was drunk.
Brilliant.The patrons were reportedly unimpressed.
Yes we ALL know you can write, but maybe this has more to do with the fact that newspapers don't like getting sued, and most journalism degrees have a component looking at law and aren't just about English.Chie wrote:Yes, they sacrificed three or four years of their young life, indebting themselves with over £20,000 they'll still have to pay back even if they end up as a barista in Café Nero, for a one in who knows what chance of becoming a journalist. Good for them.
I value my time, I don't think spending that much money for an opportunity to enter the graduate sector lottery is a good bet and besides, I don't need a degree to prove I'm capable of mediating information in a way that can be understood by the target audience anyway. A record producer wouldn't listen to an auditionee who clearly has a natural talent for singing and say, 'yeah, that was amazing, but where's your degree in singing?'
In the last 10 years, journalism has somehow turned into a graduate profession. Even graduates are struggling to compete for jobs in an industry where the output is no longer valued by the consumer (who's prepared to spend £2 on a cup of coffee but will pay £2 for a week's subscription to an online newspaper the day they die (even though it's cheaper than buying seven newspapers)) like it used to be. So there is absolutely no hope for non-graduates. To keep seeing articles written by dunces who probably have degrees, as I often do, really rubs salt into the wound..
YES, you DO need a degree to prove that. The example that you've given is plain wrong because the creative industry is entirely different. Perhaps a better example would, if you're using the creative industry, be that you won't get your foot through the door at most auditions unless you have a good training (often the name of institution is more important than the actual training) and a good agent. Record producers will put any old shit on a record so a degree in singing is bollocks (see Simon Cowell).Chie wrote: I value my time, I don't think spending that much money for an opportunity to enter the graduate sector lottery is a good bet and besides, I don't need a degree to prove I'm capable of mediating information in a way that can be understood by the target audience anyway. A record producer wouldn't listen to an auditionee who clearly has a natural talent for singing and say, 'yeah, that was amazing, but where's your degree in singing?'
As you may or may not know, I work as a librarian. Well, library assistant. I can't call myself a librarian until I have a librarian's qualification. It doesn't stop me doing the same job as a librarian, performing the same level of competence in my duties, or having a different level of customer service training to them. I am capable of shelving, cataloguing, processing and discarding books. That's all there is to it really; apart from perhaps making conversation with old people about the weather and telling young kids to sling their hook when they mess about on the computers.Chie wrote:Yes, they sacrificed three or four years of their young life, indebting themselves with over £20,000 they'll still have to pay back even if they end up as a barista in Café Nero, for a one in who knows what chance of becoming a journalist. Good for them. I value my time, I don't think spending that much money for an opportunity to enter the graduate sector lottery is a good bet and besides, I don't need a degree to prove I'm capable of mediating information in a way that can be understood by the target audience anyway. A record producer wouldn't listen to an auditionee who clearly has a natural talent for singing and say, 'yeah, that was amazing, but where's your degree in singing?' In the last 10 years, journalism has somehow turned into a graduate profession. Even graduates are struggling to compete for jobs in an industry where the output is no longer valued by the consumer (who's prepared to spend £2 on a cup of coffee but will pay £2 for a week's subscription to an online newspaper the day they die (even though it's cheaper than buying seven newspapers)) like it used to be. So there is absolutely no hope for non-graduates. To keep seeing articles written by dunces who probably have degrees, as I often do, really rubs salt into the wound.