4-28-09
Me and the other Vice intern Ben had nothing to do today, so I thought we should start emailing interns at other publications to see if we could hang out. We hit up Gawker, RollingStone, Fader and Spin with this email:
Hey, Ryan Bradford and Ben Todd here from Vice Magazine. It's super slow today and we're looking for things to do, and we thought that hanging out with other interns would be fun. Hit us back on here or vice@viceland.com.
We're really fun, swearsies.
And then Dylan Silver from Spin wrote back:
hey dudes,
it's slow over here too - just skimming through some hate mail over a recent piece on Susan Boyle. Seriously who defends that whore? here's a little piece of what i'm dealing with: "i hope the entire spin office blows up, aw, you gonna report this to the authorities? sorry, i'm in law enforcement and this is not a threat, just wishing for the shit of the earth to die". Awesome.
Now, I don't know what disturbs me more - the people who consider Susan Boyle a whore, or the people who threaten to MURDER the people who do.
I think that maybe he was thinking that since he was corresponding with Vice, he had to put on his offensive, edgy tone and this got me thinking of the magazine I work for. I've found that Vice certainly has a negative tone, content-wise, but that doesn't fit the personalities of anyone who works there. Some people come in for interviews and they're surprised that peeps aren't doing lines off the floor and whatnot. People with hip, snarky attitudes never end up getting the jobs. Besides a couple dicks (who are dicks because they have uptight, stressful sales jobs, not because it's not how they carry themselves), everyone who works for the magazine is warm, smart and funny.
However, there is still the writing. It IS negative and mean and I feel that I have to compromise myself a little whenever I want to get blog posts on. I feel a little small-townish here, but it's completely the opposite than writing for the City Weekly. Perhaps it's because I'm now pretty good friends with Jamie (music editor) but I feel like I can be playful and silly to whatever extent and she'll support it. It's refreshing cuz I feel that that's my natural demeanor.
And it's not only Vice. You look at blogs and other web publications and all it 's all filled with Snark and Cleverness. I think it's called desktop journalism - where people provide content without any sources or having to talk to anyone. It's sort of the way things work now; everything is opinion and cynical.
Hey, Ryan Bradford and Ben Todd here from Vice Magazine. It's super slow today and we're looking for things to do, and we thought that hanging out with other interns would be fun. Hit us back on here or vice@viceland.com.
We're really fun, swearsies.
And then Dylan Silver from Spin wrote back:
hey dudes,
it's slow over here too - just skimming through some hate mail over a recent piece on Susan Boyle. Seriously who defends that whore? here's a little piece of what i'm dealing with: "i hope the entire spin office blows up, aw, you gonna report this to the authorities? sorry, i'm in law enforcement and this is not a threat, just wishing for the shit of the earth to die". Awesome.
Now, I don't know what disturbs me more - the people who consider Susan Boyle a whore, or the people who threaten to MURDER the people who do.
I think that maybe he was thinking that since he was corresponding with Vice, he had to put on his offensive, edgy tone and this got me thinking of the magazine I work for. I've found that Vice certainly has a negative tone, content-wise, but that doesn't fit the personalities of anyone who works there. Some people come in for interviews and they're surprised that peeps aren't doing lines off the floor and whatnot. People with hip, snarky attitudes never end up getting the jobs. Besides a couple dicks (who are dicks because they have uptight, stressful sales jobs, not because it's not how they carry themselves), everyone who works for the magazine is warm, smart and funny.
However, there is still the writing. It IS negative and mean and I feel that I have to compromise myself a little whenever I want to get blog posts on. I feel a little small-townish here, but it's completely the opposite than writing for the City Weekly. Perhaps it's because I'm now pretty good friends with Jamie (music editor) but I feel like I can be playful and silly to whatever extent and she'll support it. It's refreshing cuz I feel that that's my natural demeanor.
And it's not only Vice. You look at blogs and other web publications and all it 's all filled with Snark and Cleverness. I think it's called desktop journalism - where people provide content without any sources or having to talk to anyone. It's sort of the way things work now; everything is opinion and cynical.