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Friday, October 08, 2004

Zen and the Art of Being a Marketing Copywriter 
Hello, everyone, and sorry for the haiatus. Getting adjusted to the new job. And maybe burnt out a bit on blogging for the time being. I go through phases.

About the new job...

The writing, actually, is potentially as challenging as anything I had the opportunity to do as a financial journalist. Of course, while I was an ink-stained wretch in the bowels of the Fortune Group of Time, Inc., all I had to worry about was serving the reader.

Well, now I have to serve the reader AND help the client make a few zillion bucks in the process.

In the months ahead, if you get, like, a quarterly newsletter from your bank or brokerage or insurance company in the mail, and it's a 4 page job, maybe I wrote it. :)

"Snarkiness" is at a minimum. Journalists often praise snarkiness--to a point that's probably destructive. Certainly it's often at the expense of the story, in many contexts.

What's "snarkiness?" It's the pornography of journalism. I'll know it when I see it. But Wonkette is positively the Queen of Snark.

There's no bylines. Journalists will salivate over bylines the way young infantry soldiers salivate over patches they can sew on their uniforms.

No. In this gig, I have to become a master of what John Keats called "negative capability."

I am Nothing.

And by being nothing, I am greater.

Until it goes to my head. Then I am become less.

I'll have to work hard to keep that in mind. But that's a good thing. I'll be an incomparably better musician for it.

Splash, out

Jason


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