Adventures in Journalism: How did this guy convince his newspaper to get him to do this story? “Hey, boss, let me go to this sleazy massage parlor/brothel, get some stimulation, then right a first-person story using phrases like, ‘More than once and more frequently as the massage continued her hands grazed across the front of my boxer shorts, a move I began to believe was intentional’?”
More importantly, are they hiring at that paper?
Now that's an investigative probe I can get behind. Wonder what the expense voucher looked like for that story. And, you have to wonder if he was just to shy that he did, in fact, bust a "nut graf."
Erk. Should have been: "...just too shy to admit that he did, in fact, bust a "nut graf."
Damn these flippers.
I'm switching my major to journalism.
Wait, at the top he said this was a TWO part series-- not only did the editor say yes, but he let him get enough material for two parts!!!!
impressive. my favorite line: 'She began tweaking my nipples, not a typical massage technique, I would later learn.'
he didn't know that before?!?!?! i must know where can i pick up sheltered journalists like this guy. the fun i could have ...
Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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