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Heartodixie	Post subject: Bootstraper Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:10 am
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Bootstraper Wanted Bootstrap Journalism #101: Opportunity to ... establish a work ethic and portfolio while contributing to the production of an award-winning publication: Writing hard news & features, capturing sporting events, taking digital pictures to help frame the stories along with selling ad space and compete on special editions including a summer. ... No sea shells, no life at the beach. Just an opportunity to put one's creativity and multitask efforts--including sales, marketing, writing, design, photography and self-enterprising initiatives. ... "Bootstrap journalism" = mostly not journalism.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:25 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	I don't know wtf "bootstrap journalism" is, but a practitioner would be a "bootstrapper," not a "bootstraper."
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J Kaufman	Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:29 pm
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:47 pm Posts: 4655 Location: New York City	I've often wondered about the figure of speech, "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps." Try that, some time, when you're wearing boots, and see how far you rise.
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copynomad	Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:10 pm
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:07 am Posts: 623	Wow, what I learned in Journalism 101 didn't involve selling ads.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:13 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	I wonder if there are any publications on Earth that aren't "award-winning."
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:35 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Phillip Blanchard wrote: I don't know wtf "bootstrap journalism" is, but a practitioner would be a "bootstrapper," not a "bootstraper." "Bootstraper" is impossible for me to read without hearing a long "a." That's what got my attention in the first place. The stupid not-journalism job description was secondary.
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onceahack	Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:00 am
Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:39 pm Posts: 731 Location: Central Texas	J Kaufman wrote: I've often wondered about the figure of speech, "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps." Try that, some time, when you're wearing boots, and see how far you rise. That the feat is impossible should tell us something about anyone who makes this claim: They're likely to be forgetting at least one other person who made possible whatever success they enjoyed.
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:26 am
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	I wonder if people who pull themselves up by their bootstraps inevitably go on to become straphangers.
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KfitzR	Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:59 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	Hey - those of us who take the tube are helping the environment. Don't knock us. (And, yeah, I'm visiting the big city. Ain't no subways back home.)
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