{"id":2814,"date":"2021-10-27T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2021-10-28T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T07:01:20","slug":"and-she-does-journalism-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/27\/and-she-does-journalism-too\/","title":{"rendered":"And She Does Journalism Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have I told you lately that I\u2019m a writer?\u00a0 I feel like someone could put together a compilation of all the times I\u2019ve said I\u2019m a writer, similar to the one that was done of Meghan McCain constantly saying, \u201cmy father.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWe get it already, you\u2019re a writer!\u201d Well, get it and get it good, because coming soon, I\u2019ll be exploring a-whole-nother side of my writing abilities with you \u2013 journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s right, come December (of this year) in addition to my unsolicited opinions about what\u2019s happening in the news, musings about local travel on a low-budget and other stuff I write, I\u2019m going to start interviewing people that I find interesting and post it here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t that exciting? I\u2019m excited about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because when I say I\u2019m a writer, I mean it in damn near every sense of the word. So I\u2019ll have you know now, I consider myself to be a journalist too, though when it comes to a career in this field, I\u2019ve been about as successful as I have writing movies and publishing books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard out here for a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, I just so happen to this platform where I can do whatever the fuck I want. And, sense I\u2019m a pretty big journalism fan, it was only a matter of time before some element of that seeped in this space too\u2014inevitable I tell you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I often talk about the time I lived in New York, I actually moved there with the express purpose of being a magazine journalist. I wanted to work at O, The Oprah Magazine<\/em> in particular — I did at least get an interview. It\u2019s funny how it doesn\u2019t even exist anymore (at least not the print edition<\/a>). Magazines aren\u2019t even really a thing anymore. But I love the writing of a good magazine feature\u2014the style and creativity of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also love a good television interview. With a magazine feature I get a sense of how the writer perceives this person, but with a television interview I get to see how the subject expresses themselves, and how the interviewer, in one way or another, coerces it out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite interviewer, whom I\u2019ve seen so far at least, is Charlie Rose. I was disgusted to learn of his behavior that got him <\/a>booted<\/a> <\/a>from both “CBS This Morning” and his own show on PBS (and rightly so), but the man could do an interview. What I liked about his show on PBS was that there were no bells and whistles. It was just him, and whomever he was interviewing in a black studio at a round table. He would get so much information out of these people in less than an hour\u2019s time. Do you realize how incredibly hard that is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least it\u2019s hard for me. I used to do profile pieces for a now defunct website, and I would spend hours with people in order to write around 1,500 words. I realize that that\u2019s probably the norm when you\u2019re writing a piece. Not to mention, I, nor the website I was writing for, had the industry stature of Charlie Rose. People probably came to him with their A game, wanting to sound smart and profound, or at the very least interesting. Still, his interviews, I thought were amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Walters<\/a> was another one. I remember this one time, while I was living in New York, after a company holiday party, a group of people I met from another department invited me to go clubbing with them. The company party was open bar, and the music had just started getting good, when everything stopped at 9:30pm sharp and these folks still had more partying left in them. I however, ended up turning them down because I had to\u2014get this\u2014race home and catch “Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People” special that was airing at 10pm. I remember getting home and being upset that I missed the beginning. I didn\u2019t have a DVR or so much as a VCR to record it. \u00a0Now I look back on that, and say, what was I thinking<\/em>? I should have gone to the club with those accounting people, or whatever department they were from. But that was how much I was into Barbara Walters\u2019 specials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I feel nostalgic for that old school journalism that I came up on, where interviewers were neutral\u2026well as neutral as any biased person can be. Nowadays it\u2019s like interviewers either have their head so far up the interviewees\u2019 ass that it ends up looking more like a publicity session or they\u2019re ridiculously combative, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know where I was going with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But anyway, I\u2019m going to start posting interviews with people here. And to kick things off, leading up to the interviews to come in December, during the month of November I\u2019m going to be posting some of my favorite journalism and interviews, along with why I like them so much. That\u2019s every Saturday in the month of November!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait, there\u2019s more. You\u2019re still going to be getting a fresh new post every Wednesday, sometime before midnight \u2013 your girl\u2019s doing double-duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because ultimately, as my grandmother would say, what it all boils down to, is that I love telling stories. Whether it\u2019s fiction or nonfiction, mine or someone else\u2019s. I believe everyone has a story that has the potential to bless someone else\u2019s life. And, well, I\u2019m tryna be in the blessin\u2019 business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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