Sad day for British journalism....
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i went for a job interview at the sport a couple of years ago, they're based in manchester.
as well as the normal interview, i had to have a day working in the office.
the role was a sales administrator which basaically involved setting up all the little prostitute adverts in the back pages.
it was £30 for an ad, and payment would normally involve a hand scrawled note and a grubby cheque sent second class to the office.
there were tits everywhere, decorating every wall, mousemat and photocopier.
i didn't get the job, but the vice industry did appeal i must admit.
obviously i work in HR now.
as well as the normal interview, i had to have a day working in the office.
the role was a sales administrator which basaically involved setting up all the little prostitute adverts in the back pages.
it was £30 for an ad, and payment would normally involve a hand scrawled note and a grubby cheque sent second class to the office.
there were tits everywhere, decorating every wall, mousemat and photocopier.
i didn't get the job, but the vice industry did appeal i must admit.
obviously i work in HR now.
cyanide-sid
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A sad day indeed Arthur.
5: “MUM GIVES BIRTH TO 8lb TROUT” – “Now doctors aren’t sure if it will need an aquarium or a cot.”
4: “GREENFLY ATE MY LOVER!” This story was sub-headed “HEARTLESS INSECTS PUT END TO MIXED-SALAD MARRIAGE”
3: “LORD LUCAN SPOTTED ON MISSING SHERGAR” In this piece we learnt that the fugitive nobleman Lord Lucan was alive and well and galloping through Scottish glens on kidnapped racehorse Shergar.
2: “LOVESICK GARDENER MARRIES LETTUCE” “It’s the vegetable or me!” girlfriend Jackie had warned.
1: “BUS FOUND BURIED AT SOUTH POLE” Perhaps the ultimate Sunday Sport exclusive, this reported that the 109 from Croydon bus station had been hijacked by a green alien in 1961 and taken to the Antarctic (and of course the paper had a photo to prove it). Follow-up stories even detailed eyewitness accounts from passengers. “The whole journey is a complete blank,” said mature student John La Trobe, “but I do remember the penguins.”
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Tooting Gull
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As a journalist myself, I did once do ONE match report for the Sunday Sport (no byline, of course - career suicide) many years ago to help a mate out. It was a Barnet v Arsenal pre-season friendly, and the whole experience was quite surreal.
Normally on a matchday you check in maybe mid-morning/lunchtime to get a word count and see who's on the desk. The Sport boys were still in the pub until well after the game kicked off after 3pm. From my experience a long lunch is not the sub-editor's best friend, so I did make sure there weren't any mistakes. Like any reader would have noticed if I'd called him David Bergkamp.
Normally on a matchday you check in maybe mid-morning/lunchtime to get a word count and see who's on the desk. The Sport boys were still in the pub until well after the game kicked off after 3pm. From my experience a long lunch is not the sub-editor's best friend, so I did make sure there weren't any mistakes. Like any reader would have noticed if I'd called him David Bergkamp.
chops
Egg chaser & hack
Interesting! I'd have imagined the levels of professionalism would still have been high, even on a gutter rag like the Sport but evidently not.
Still a step up from some of the regional hacks I've met though.
My replacement as Sports Editor at the group I worked for until recently has been in the job three weeks now and is apparently yet to complete a page. He was a reporter prior to becoming a sub and is prone to going walkabouts on or near deadline. Christ knows why the editor in chief thought those were the hall marks of a good sub. Fiddling while Rome burns seems to be the hallmark of most Newsquest publications nowadays though, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.