With a résumé full of failing failure, you now think you have the “chops” to join the profession of Mark Twain, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, and award-winning New York Times Guest Columnist Timothy Egan? Think again, toilet-man. You’re forgetting the one thing that Twain, Orwell, the Bard and I share that you’ll never ever have: a degree in journalism.
When asked,”Mr. Egan, If a plumber can’t right a book because, well, he is a plumber then I can assume that Obama can’t write TWO books because he is a lawyer correct?…when are you doing an op-ed about that?…Mr. Egan? Mr. Egan are you OK?”
Followed by the sound of Tim Egans head exploding. You know, from the Irony.
Mmmm…Irony. Drink it in. It always goes down smooth.
“If a plumber can’t right a book”
Not exactly the best way to discuss who has the right to write a book.
I think it’s teh intentional, The Monster.
Halp us, Timm Egan, we r stuk in hear with non-J-skool-appoved riters.
I’ve righted dozens of books without having the resume of Egan… though heavier book ends would have made that process unnecessary.
Just how long have they been granting degrees in journalism?
I’ll bet it would only take an internet search and a few hundred bucks to come up with a journalism degree. The real question is, why? The Times is mortgaging its building to keep the paper going. Several others have declared bankrupcy.
Community organizer is where the action is, kids.
Ya know, just off the cuff – quite a lot of really great, or merely entertaining books that I had to read as an English lit major, and some others that I read for fun, had been written by people who had done something else for a while, other than hang out in English lit departments, and in trendy Nooo Yawk media circles. Having done something else lends a certain something to the stuff that a writer can draw from.
Admittedly, a few of them had been working journalists – like Samuel Clemens, Rudyard Kipling, George McDonald Fraser and Carl Hiaasen. Working actor and theatrical manager, like William Shakespeare. Policeman, like Joseph Wambaugh, oil bidness like Raymond Chandler. Bank clerk – TS Eliot, veterinarian – James Herriot, James Jones – soldier, Eric Newby – a whole lot of stuff, Patrick Leigh Fermer – classical scholar and soldier.
Yeah, I presume to write books and I don’t have a journo degree either. Only the shake-an-bake Defense Information School course for military broadcasters.
You’re forgetting the one thing that Twain, Orwell, the Bard and I share that you’ll never ever have: a degree in journalism.
I guess this guy must really respect Governor Palin, then.
/sarc
Wait…
Teh Bard had a J-Skool degree?
Ya know what Joe’s gonna have next year that Egan won’t?
A job.
[…] the end of this piece, we hear again from our old pal, licensed journalist Tim Egan: In an op-ed piece, the NYT’s Timothy Egan says that the complaint against Blagojevich […]
Homer, Plato, Socrates,… all had something in common with Joe the Plumber that they didn’t have with Egan. Good writing doesn’t need a credential, Mr. Ego.