You may have heard about his woman who got fired from her job for posting a blog of “confessions”. You can go somewhere else to find a debate over whether she’s a courageous truth-teller or a narcissistic dimwit.

I wonder if this lady was fired for her blog post alone. She doesn’t give the impression she was a delight around the office.

Another question: Is this the woman who should be giving advice about how successful journalists work? She hasn’t exactly
brought home the bacon for her station. Huntsville may be a lovely community, but most reporters have greater ambitions.

Maybe she loves Huntsville. Maybe the company she works for doesn’t front the money to submit for awards.

But I wonder if her greatest confession is that she’s one of the scores of reporters who chose the profession because they wanted to be stars instead of conduits of information.

She may turn her firing into a book deal. She could even become a moderate success as a “personality”.

Then again, she may even have trouble doing that. She doesn’t seem to have much to say that’s interesting. Her confessions were her fifth post in two years.

If anything, her post complaining about her assignment one Friday seems like it would be more likely to draw the ire of
management.

At any rate, I present to you:

Alan Scaia’s Confessions — A Rebuttal (There’s five because I only need 50 percent as much attention):

1.) I respect my sources’ time and intelligence enough not to burn them on my own sparsely-read blog.
2.) WWII vets are old, but they tell the best stories. I seek them out at every opportunity. Have you heard about the guy from Colleyville who single-handedly blew up a tank?!
3.) Interview subjects do ramble, but if you listen to them, they may give you a good story lead. Even if it happens only once every 100 times, that’s a few times a year you can bring your own story idea to the table and not risk getting assigned a “happy, fluffy rainbow story”.
4.) “Happy, fluffy rainbow stories” are like a day off. There’s little reason for a young, college-educated professional who commonly sees people at their worst to be so cynical about his or her own lot in life.
5.) I have also slept in a news car. Sometimes we work very long days.