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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
How the Intern Reads Your Proposal
How the Intern Reads your Proposal
When I started interning, I was so excited to read actual proposals from real writers. I mean, now I was really in the business. Sort of. But I couldn't help but wonder what those authors would think if they knew the first person to read their "baby" was an intern with no college degree (yet). Would they be angry? Disappointed? Probably.
The thing is, after writing forty reader reports these past few months, and receiving feedback on those reports from Jessica and Kim, I realize that the situation is different than I thought it was. First, the intern isn't a person who knows nothing of literature. She applied for this unpaid position because she loves books and is probably three or even four years into her English degree. No person in her right mind would happily rearrange an agent's bookshelves and do her filing for free unless she was in love with the publishing business.
I've come to know that authors are actually at a bit of an advantage if the intern reads their proposal first. You see, most successful literary agents have been in the business for quite some time. They've seen heaps of ideas and pages upon pages of writing from all types of authors. They continue to receive a slew of queries and proposals daily. Their goal, when reading proposals, is to find a good reason to reject, because they know, from all that experience, that the gems in the pile are few and far between.
But the intern is new in the business. All she knows of publishing is that glittery afterglow. Think J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyers. Stephen King. The intern, to align her own experience with her starry-eyed preconceived notions, desperately wants each proposal to be the next big thing. And she wants to be the first to have read it. This rarely happens, as I'm rapidly learning.
The intern also reads the slush pile—the notorious pile of unsolicited queries and proposals. All that reading makes it impossible for the intern to read for pleasure (who has time?), so she sees a great deal of writing that is inadequate and sub-par. When something even marginally resembles the work of a professional author, she's going to sing its praises. Her face is going to light up with glee. It's the best she's seen in a long time!
When the agent gets around to reading the proposal the intern liked so much, she can't help but read it with the intern's thoughts—the intern's selling points—in the back of her mind. So, if your work has anything good about it—anything at all—the intern, whether she's aware of it or not—is actually shopping it to the agent.
So fear not, fellow slush-pile dwellers! You're in good, optimistic hands.
Lauren is a senior at Pace University, where she is working on an English degree. The BookEnds internship is the second one she has completed. She began her first internship at Simon & Schuster's Touchstone/Fireside imprint in the spring of 2009 and, in September 2010, will be starting her third internship at Hannacroix Creek Books. Lauren has been the editor-in-chief of a student literary magazine, news and features editor of her school newspaper. She volunteers as a freelance editor. She blogs at www.slushpiletales.blogspot.com.
51 comments:
- Josin L. McQuein said...
It amazes me when people get huffy over the "revelation" that interns read slush for agents. They act like they're getting some kind of brush-off. To me, it only makes sense.
In most situations, there's a screening process so the higher-ups don't have to deal with people who aren't serious or equipped to handle a job. You don't interview with the boss first, you go through HR. You don't get to sing for a record producer on Day 1, you audition for people further down the line. Why shouldn't agents have someone to help them streamline their reading lists, too? - 8:19 AM, June 02, 2010
- Miel Abeille said...
Thank you for the bird's eye view of the publishing world!
Best of luck in your career! - 8:20 AM, June 02, 2010
- Carolynnwith2Ns said...
Both of my daughters have interned,(not in your field) during their college careers. They found their experiences fulfilling,(no comments regarding slave labor here) and very valuable on resumes.
Personnally I feel very comfortable knowing that someone like you may have been the first to read my writing...my daughters are often my first readers as well.
I always value what they say.
So, good luck at school, write a killer report regarding these last four months and now...do your laundry and clean your room. - 8:28 AM, June 02, 2010
- Kimber Li said...
Thank you, Lauren!
Since my Queryland novel is Young Adult, I consider interns reading it first to be a huge advantage because they're still close to the target audience. My request for pages record on this novel so far seems to support that theory.
Too bad BookEnds isn't accepting YA. Oh, well, they still got an educational blog and I never miss reading a day of it. - 8:42 AM, June 02, 2010
- Laurel said...
Thanks for the insight, Lauren. Good points. Good luck in your career pursuits!
- 8:42 AM, June 02, 2010
- Sarah J. MacManus said...
We have college students as intern readers at The Battered Suitcase - I LOVE you guys!
And yes - interns are more open and optimistic than someone who's been reading slush for ages.
Good luck! - 8:49 AM, June 02, 2010
- Caitie F said...
Great post Lauren! I just finished an internship at a literary agency (so sad it is over!) and agree with you 100%. There were many things that I absolutely loved and convinced the people I was working for to request a partial or a full. They even said it was sometimes something they wouldn't have requested, but ended up really liking.
Interns (and assistants) are GREAT for writers. Agents really look for a reason to reject, interns are searching for the great idea and, I know that a lot of the times, looking for a reason to say yes. I loved getting to read a partial, or even a full.
I hope you loved your internship even half as much as I loved mine! - 9:23 AM, June 02, 2010
- JoAnn said...
Thank you, Lauren. That was very enlightening. Best wishes on your career.
- 9:41 AM, June 02, 2010
- Buffy Andrews said...
Enjoyed your post, Lauren. So insightful and honest. Don't ever give up on your goals. It's obvious you are passionate about what you are doing. Learn all you can. You're getting great experience that you simply can't put a price tag on. So you go girl! Keep reading and maybe, just maybe, you'll find the gem you are looking for. And, well, if you don't, you've learned and had a hell of a time along the way. (Smiles) Blessings, Buffy
- 10:04 AM, June 02, 2010
Lauren, thanks so much for the "insider's" scoop! You sound so optomistic and energetic, you'll make a wonderful agent or editor someday if you so choose.
Oh, and BTW. LOVE the hat! I have one just like it. ;-) You wear it well.
Thanks again!
P.S. for Kimber An 8:42~
Book Ends does take YA now. Kim will be the one to sub to, once she starts taking queries again. Good luck! - 10:10 AM, June 02, 2010
- Nancy Naigle said...
Best wishes Lauren.
Nancy Naigle
Love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense.
www.NancyNaigle.com - 10:22 AM, June 02, 2010
- Kate Douglas said...
What a great post, Lauren--though the image of you rearranging Jessica's bookshelves is almost painful...I love the idea of someone with your attitude and enthusiasm reading from the slush pile. Best of luck to you in school and beyond--one of these days I expect to see you taking pitches at conferences!
- 10:43 AM, June 02, 2010
- Sangu Mandanna said...
That was a great post, Lauren! I've never understood why a writer would get ticked off by an intern reading their queries/proposals first (surely a reader is a reader, whether or not he/she has had years of experience in the business), and I'm so glad you pointed out all the advantages of an intern getting to a writer's work first!
- 10:49 AM, June 02, 2010
- Amy said...
Thanks for reminding me how much I miss our intern. I work for a non-profit, so the board doesn't actually budget us in help. So there is nothing better than having a little free help, even if it's only for a semester.
As I'm sure everyone in your office told you, iterns are invaluable (at least to cheap office, lol).
I really need to call that Liaison and see about getting setup for another one. :)
Good Luck! - 10:49 AM, June 02, 2010
- Connie Keller said...
Thanks for the post, Lauren! It's great to know that someone's rooting for us.
- 10:57 AM, June 02, 2010
- Donna Cummings said...
I really enjoyed this. It's always wonderful to hear from people who love the industry, and your enthusiasm really shines through. I hope you find lots of bestsellers in your future endeavors. :)
- 11:35 AM, June 02, 2010
- Kristi said...
Just wanted to say how much I loved reading this...I'm off to visit Lauren's blog now! Great insight!
- 11:41 AM, June 02, 2010
- Stephen Kozeniewski said...
Good luck. You should have some INCREDIBLE proposals coming your way yesterday around midnight.
- 11:53 AM, June 02, 2010
- April Plummer said...
Thanks for the fresh perspective! You've given me a little bit of hope that maybe my query will catch the eyes of an optimistic intern like you! :)
- 12:35 PM, June 02, 2010
- Kristin Laughtin said...
Love this post, because I don't think anyone can argue with it. You make a really good point about being still new to the business but loving books anyway, so anything remotely good jumps out to your not-yet-jaded eyes. (And I think I can totally understand that even from things like Nathan Bransford's query-reading contests...I'll read a few and think "Well, this one's alright, I would talk to this author if I were an agent!" only to find out that he wouldn't ask for partials of any of them. I would only do so because I've read far fewer and haven't gotten as discerning yet.)
- 1:02 PM, June 02, 2010
- Marsha Sigman said...
You totally had me with the hat.
Great post! - 1:08 PM, June 02, 2010
- Joseph L. Selby said...
Thank you, Lauren. That was an incredibly encouraging post.
- 1:49 PM, June 02, 2010
- Francis said...
I was dead sure this was a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker. The resemblance is UNCANNY!
I've always wondered how agents and interns organize their lives... all that reading, it must be exhausting at times.
Lots of cupcakes? - 2:20 PM, June 02, 2010
- Hart Johnson said...
Lauren, I think you've got a FABULOUS point. I also suspect (though this couldn't possibly be true of Jessica) you are less jaded by 'what sells' and more likely to spot 'just a darned good tale' even if it doesn't fall neatly into a box.
Best of luck to you with your next internship and your future! - 2:28 PM, June 02, 2010
- Stephanie said...
Thanks for sharing! I guess I never really gave any thought to how I feel about an intern reading my material first. I knew that's how it generally worked though. I guess it doesn't bother me. If it's meant to be, my submission will find it's way to the agent!
- 3:42 PM, June 02, 2010
- Allison said...
Good Luck in your chosen career. Years ago, as I worked toward a teaching degree, I had the opportunity to intern (we called it student teaching then) with a great lady who taught me things not in a text book. Nothing like hands-on experience under the guiding hand of an expert. - 3:48 PM, June 02, 2010
- Natalie said...
Awesome post! Very encouraging to writers everywhere. Best of luck on your studies and career!
- 4:04 PM, June 02, 2010
- Lisa_Gibson said...
Thanks for the insight. Best of luck on your studies and your career.
- 5:11 PM, June 02, 2010
- Lauren Ruth said...
Everybody -
Thanks so much for all of your encouragement! This was my favorite internship so far. I think rather than clouding or weathering my enthusiasm, the ladies at Bookends did an excellent job of amping it up!
ps. I'll have to dig that hat out again...
Lauren - 7:12 PM, June 02, 2010
- Alli Sinclair said...
I loved this post. It put a whole different spin on this for me. Lauren, good luck in whatever you end up doing!
- 7:13 PM, June 02, 2010
- Unknown said...
I am in complete disagreement: I am disappointed. Does that mean that I don't think Lauren is a lovely, competent and literate young woman? No, it doesn't. And yet, it is almost comical, with all the other humiliations writers face, that this is the case. I like to think, after suffering over a manuscript, that the person who is reading and judging it, is bringing to bear the full weight of their professional experience, and is noting those paintstaking details of plot, character construction, and is nodding their head in approval, or disapproval, visibly twitching at its inconsistencies or digressions. When you submit, you are presenting an example of your life's work, hoping that it is recognized for its complexity, wit and style as much as adhering to proper narrative form--only to learn that a college student is judging it? If you were an aspiring Alain Ducasse and you had spent years at a culinary academy, and had even made banquets for esteemed members of the village, only to present your pièce de resistance to a sous-chef who was still chopping soup greens--wouldn't you sniff just un petit peu with indignation?
If that doesn't actually disappoint you a little, even though it may, alternately, give your work the chance of being screened by a bright young thing, then you are either blithely lying to yourself or are completely inured against any disappointment, and there can be many in this industry. So put on a happy face. That's all you can do.
That said, now that Lauren is leaving who is reading the partials? - 10:11 PM, June 02, 2010
It's cool to know what goes on behind the scenes when a person is trying to publish. Thanks for the cool insight! Write on, Lauren!
P.S. I'm following your blog now! :) - 10:54 PM, June 02, 2010
- Natalie Aguirre said...
Thanks for your great post Lauren. I found it fascinating to learn more about how the slush pile works. Good luck with your career. It sounds like you've gotten a lot of experience in publishing.
- 6:17 AM, June 03, 2010
- Dell Smith said...
Great post. Nice insider view of the publishing biz.
- 7:28 AM, June 03, 2010
- MAGolla said...
Wonderful post, Lauren! Good luck in your endeavors!
- 8:20 AM, June 03, 2010
This makes me think that a want to be writer could learn alot from reading the slush pile at an agency for a few months. You see what cuts it and waht doesn't.
When you get your next intern, can you have this person post regularly on your blog about her experience? The last one was pretty interesting. - 12:56 PM, June 03, 2010
- Gregory Paul Wilhelm said...
Hmm. I recently sent in a query to BookEnds. It was my second one ever. At the time, I foolishly believed I knew enough to send one in. However, after my third rejection I decided that I should probably learn a little more about them before I try again. That was a couple of weeks ago and after what I've learned so far, I feel totally embarrassed every time I look at that garbage that I inflicted upon those poor unsuspecting agents. And now I find out that it's possible that my horrible letter may have been seen by an unsuspecting intern! If you're the who had to see my query letter, let me just say how sorry I am that you had to read that ridiculous piece of trash. Hopefully you'll get the chance to see one of my better ones in the future. Once again ... Sorry Lauren.-GW
- 3:03 PM, June 03, 2010
- Gregory Paul Wilhelm said...
Uh ... that should read -"If you're the -one- who had to see my query letter,". Sorry. -GW
- 3:59 PM, June 03, 2010
- Megan Frazer Blakemore said...
I totally related to this post. I was an intern for a film producer in college and always felt a little guilty that I was the one making these decisions. I think you're right, though, that the intern is probably the most receptive audience.
As for my track record, I rejected Pollock, but thought that Basquiat would make an awesome movie. - 8:08 AM, June 04, 2010
- Janet Johnson said...
I would be very happy if an intern read my stuff. Great explanation and good luck with school and your next interniship. :)
- 12:29 PM, June 04, 2010
- Rita said...
Thanks for your views. It is good to know what goes on at in the agency.
Best of luck - 2:01 PM, June 04, 2010
- KC Frantzen said...
Thank you for a great explanation. That makes complete sense and is an example of God's Grace yet again.
Time is one precious commodity. Agents have good reasons for interns. (This is a business after all.) Win/win for agent and intern, and for writers! We squander a lot of time as we slog up the learning curve, all so we can, one day, truly become authors.
Knowing that we might have an extra chance along the way is encouraging!
Much success to you! - 8:40 AM, June 05, 2010
I love your attitude and it does help to know! Very best wishes as you go forward! The printed word matters now more than ever, I think.
Cat B - 9:30 AM, June 05, 2010
Hi Lauren,
you're definitely off to a great start, because you get it! Especially nowadays, everyone starts as an intern, showing they're capable and motivated and able to handle whatever their boss wants of them. I began as an intern with an NHL team and that turned into a full-time job before I hopped over to Vancouver to work for the Olympics.
Best of luck! - 2:23 PM, June 06, 2010
- Julie Musil said...
Such fun reading about this from the other side of the table. Thanks!
- 10:03 PM, June 06, 2010
- Janet Trumble said...
I had two interns fall in love with my manuscript and pitch it to the agent in charge. Ultimately, said agent passed, but bless those two for loving my characters! It gave me the umph I needed to carry on. Since then I've found an agent and ms. is currently being considered by 5 publishing houses. So exciting!
- 11:27 PM, June 06, 2010
This post was amazing!!!!
And Inspiring for me!!! Recently I have started researching the publishing industry. Because I was so unsure of what I wanted to do with myself after highschool I started my college career as a business admin. major.
I had no Idea what I wanted to do in business or if I wanted to do business at all but I figured that it was something I was good at and it would be a comfortable life.
I never even considered that my joy of reading and writing translated into any career at all, until I came across a blog by an inspiring author.
Following her blog led me through the authors journey and then it lead me to the agents, then to much much more.
I have been diligently researching literary agents and publishing houses but today was the first time I'd actually read anything about the intern, and it got me curious. Going to your blog I saw just how I would be able to get into the publishing world and learn even more.
Any way, sorry for rambling and great POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 11:37 PM, June 06, 2010
- vive said...
Thanks for that account :) How did you get an internship in the first place? I've been trying but no-one has responded to my emails. I've finished my Eng/Am Lit and creative writing degree with a first.. and I have other experience. Why won't anyone get back to me? :(
AEB - 3:04 PM, July 01, 2010
You can find lots of internships and jobs in publishing at bookjobs.com
- 8:29 PM, July 01, 2010
- vive said...
but I'm english - these are all american jobs? Any advice for england?
- 9:34 AM, July 02, 2010
- An Intern Discovered Eminem. said...
Nope. I've never heard someone complain about interns before. It wouldn't make sense because an INTERN is the one who discovered rapper Eminem, not Dr. Dre. Eminem said he left his demo with an intern & the intern went crazy over it and convinced Dr. Dre to listen. I read that in an Eminem interview for Vanity Fair magazine. Also, an ASSITANT is the one who requested TWILIGHT after reading it. And also, Harry Potter was published because of the publisher's 8 year old kid who asked her dad for more of the manuscript. I'm tempted to address my queries to the interns instead of agents because they're much, much nicer people (as you can tell from the attitude in the 1st comment) in general, whether they asks for partials or not.
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Around the country, gritty industrialization is giving way to industrial chic as derelict warehouse districts are being revitalized into thriving art enclaves. These aren't just hipster hangouts of vegan food trucks and green markets. They're areas that have undergone a process known in urban planning circles as adaptive reuse. The idea being that structurally sound and historically significant buildings are reclaimed, repurposed, and reborn as the linchpins of creative new zones of commerce and tourism. Credit usually goes to young folks and artists who are drawn to these regions by the low cost of housing. Then, as the districts gain critical mass, preservationists, developers, and urban planners take notice, and previously forlorn neighborhoods evolve into places worth visiting. Art is often still the economic driver, but food and lodging tend to be cutting edge as well. Here are seven once-shunned areas now enjoying architectural and cultural renaissance.
Los Angeles' Arts District
When you spot graffiti-covered walls and giant outdoor murals, you know the Los Angeles Arts District is in your line of sight. This neighborhood of aging warehouses, food-processing plants, and low-rise manufacturing facilities on downtown's eastern fringe gained traction with artists who unofficially moved into vacant buildings in the late 1970s. The city eventually gave its stamp of approval on these live/work spaces when it passed an Artist in Residence ordinance in 1981.
The billboards on display are the antithesis of the corporate kind you see along the highway. They're a robust collection of street-art murals including some by Europe's elite artists: Banksy (England), JR (France), and Aryz (Spain).
As America's entertainment capital, LA is the place artists from around the globe want to be seen. A few blocks west of where the artists live is where many of their works are displayed in the Historic Core neighborhood. In a city of automobiles, locals joke, the BMW stops here. Only in this area will you see 40,000 Angelenos get out of their cars and talk to each other face to face.
When to go: Second Thursdays of every month for the Downtown LA Art Walk.
Where to eat: Bäco Mercat, a small-plate favorite. Try one of the stuffed flatbread sandwiches with a glass of custom-made tamarind and mango pop. (408 S. Main Street; 213-687-8808; bacomercat.com)
Where to stay: AirBnB is the place to experience life in a true downtown loft for less than the cost of a hotel. (airbnb.com)
Don't miss … a nightcap at The Varnish. Head for an unmarked door at the back of Cole's restaurant for a vintage cocktail at this speakeasy-style watering hole (118 E. Sixth Street; 213-622-9999; 213nightlife.com/thevarnish)


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Story location: http://archive.pressthink.org/2009/04/12/hesaid_shesaid.html
There I am, sitting at the breakfast table, with my coffee and a copy of the New York Times, in the classic newspaper reading position from before the Web. And I come to this article, headlined "Ex-Chairman of A.I.G. Says Bailout Has Failed." I immediately recognize in it the signs of a he said, she said account.
Quick definition: "He said, she said" journalism means…
When these five conditions are met, the genre is in gear. The he said part might sound like this:
Mr. Greenberg asserted that he would have reduced or at least hedged A.I.G.Æs exposure to credit-default swaps in 2005, when A.I.G.Æs credit rating was reduced.ōA.I.G.Æs business model did not fail; its management did,ö he asserted.
Followed by the "she" said…
That provoked another scornful counterattack from his former company, saying that Mr. GreenbergÆs assertions were ōimplausible,ö ōnot grounded in realityö and at odds with his track record of not hedging A.I.G.Æs bets on credit-default swaps.
I had read enough of the Times coverage of Mr. Greenberg to wonder why the editors would run something so lame. Their business columnists have been (excuse the expression) kicking ass on meltdown coverage, including A.I.G. But here there was no attempt to assess clashing truth claims, even though Times journalism was available to do just that. Instead Hank Greenberg got to star in a game of "you say black, I say white."
It seemed strange to me that in 2009 stories like that were still being waved on through. On Twitter I sometimes talk to Ryan Chittum, who writes The Audit column for Columbia Journalism Review. It's a running critique of the business press after the banking meltdown. So I asked Ryan, "is this the best the Times can do?" because he knows a lot more about the coverage than I do. A few hours later he answered me at CJR.
This oneÆs easy: No. The TimesÆs story offers no analysis and forces readersŚ95 percent of whom know little or nothing about GreenbergÆs tenure at AIGŚto try to guess whoÆs right.
Which is why these stories are so frustrating: we're left helpless by them. I want to quote the rest of his judgment because it helps nail down what is meant by he said, she said, not just at the New York Times, which has no special purchase on the form, but anywhere. The means are available to do better, but these are not employed. Chittum:
ThereÆs no attempt to try to separate out whoÆs right here, even though everybody but Hank Greenberg knows he has major responsibility for driving AIG into the ground.HereÆs some stuff that helps explain why. I just culled it from the excellent Washington Post three-parter on AIG in December (if you havenÆt read that yet, make sure you do):
He created the Financial Products division in 1987 with traders from soon-to-be disgraced Drexel Burnham Lambert, approved its entry into the credit-default swap market in 1998, empowered Joseph Cassano, oversaw FP when it set up ōshamö companies that resulted in tens of millions in fines, was an unindicted co-conspirator in a huge fraud at AIG, oversaw the companyÆs credit downgrade from AAA, was in charge when half of the companyÆs $80 billion in CDS on subprime CDOs were written. Apparently, Cassano and FP stopped issuing CDS within months of GreenbergÆs exit in 2005.
How much more evidence do you need to tell your readers that this guy has significant responsibility for the disaster that came to his his company and the entire economyŚto not let him spin away?
"How much more evidence do you need?" is the kind of exasperation a lot of us have felt with what he calls "false balance," which is another name for the pattern I'm describing.
So far so good. I told you what he said, she said is, and gave you an example. CJR chimed in, and told the New York Times it could do way better, showing how. Press criticism lives! (Twitter helps.) But this does not tell us why he said, she said reporting still exists, or ever existed. To understand that we have to cut deeper into news practice, American style.
Turn the question around for a moment: what are the advantages of the newswriting formula I have derisively labeled "he said, she said?" Rather than treat it as a problem, approach it as a kind of solution to quandaries common on the reporting trail. When, for example, a screaming fight breaks out at the city council meeting and you don't know who's right, but you have to report it, he said, she said makes the story instantly writable. Not a problem, but a solution to the reporter's (deadline!) problem.
When you kinda sorta recall that Hank Greenberg is a guy who shouldn't necessarily get the benefit of the doubt in a dispute like this, but you don't know the history well enough to import it into your account without a high risk of error, and yet you have to produce an error-free account for tomorrow's paper because your editor expects of you just that… he said, she said gets you there.
Or when the Congressional Budget Office issues a report on ethanol and what it's costing us in higher food prices, the AP reporter to whom the story is given could just summarize the report, but that's a little too much like stenography, isn't it? So the AP adds reactions from organized groups that are primed to react.
This is a low cost way of going beyond the report itself. A familiar battle of interpretations follows, with critics of ethanol underlining the costs and supporters stressing the benefits. Of course, the AP could try to sort out those competing claims, but that would take more time and background knowledge than it probably has available for a simple "CBO report issued" story. "Supporters of ethanol disagreed, saying the report was good news…" gets the job done.
These are some of the strengths of the he said, she said genre, a newsroom workhorse for forty years. (Think it's easy? You try making any dispute story in the world writable on deadline…)
The best description I've read of the problem to which devices like he said, she said are a solution comes from former Washington Post reporter Paul Taylor, who covered national politics. Here's a comment about it that I left at the New York Times Opinionator blog. It was an attempt to explain a phrase I use to describe the kind of distortion that he said, she said can produce: "regression toward a phony mean."
Journalists associate the middle with truth, when there may be no reason to.In his 1990 book, See How They Run, former Washington Post reporter Paul Taylor (once seen as heir to David Broder) explained why regression toward a phony mean is so common in journalism. It answers to a need for what he calls ōrefuge.ö Here is what he said:
ōSometimes I worry that my squeamishness about making sharp judgments, pro or con, makes me unfit for the slam-bang world of daily journalism. Other times I conclude that it makes me ideally suited for newspapering¢ certainly for the rigors and conventions of modern æobjectiveÆ journalism. For I can dispose of my dilemmas by writing stories straight down the middle. I can search for the halfway point between the best and the worst that might be said about someone (or some policy or idea) and write my story in that fair-minded place. By aiming for the golden mean, I probably land near the best approximation of truth more often than if I were guided by any other set of compasses¢ partisan, ideological, pyschological, whateverģ Yes, I am seeking truth. But IÆm also seeking refuge. IÆm taking a pass on the toughest calls I face.ö
Clearly, there can be something extreme about this squeamishness, too. Clearly, the desire for refuge can get out hand. Writing the news so that it lands somewhere near the ōhalfway point between the best and the worst that might be said about someoneö is not a truthtelling impulse at all, but a refuge-seeking one, and itÆs possible that this ritual will distort a given story.
Like the "straight down the middle" impulse that Taylor writes about, he said, she said is not so much a truth-telling strategy as refuge-seeking behavior that fits well into newsroom production demands. "Taking a pass" on the tougher calls (like who's blowing more smoke) is economical. It's seen as risk-reduction, as well, because the account declines to explicitly endorse or actively mistrust any claim that is made in the account. Isn't it safer to report, "Rumsfeld said…," letting Democrats in Congress howl at him (and report that) than it would be to report, "Rumsfeld said, erroneously…" and try to debunk the claim yourself? The first strategy doesn't put your own authority at risk, the second does, but for a reason.
We need journalists who understand that reason. And I think many do. But a lot don't.
He said, she said reporting appears to be risk-reducing, but this is exactly what's changing on the press. For a given report about, say, former counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke, "the halfway point between the best and the worst that might be said about someone" is no more likely to be accurate than the one-fifth mark, especially when you factor in the reality of the Overton Window and the general pattern we know as "working the refs." The halfway point is a miserable guideline but it can still sound pretty good when you are trying to advertise to all that you have no skin in the game. This is how I think of he said, she said reporting. Besides being easy to operate, and requiring the fewest imports of knowledge, it's a way of reporting the news that advertises the producer's even handedness. The ad counts as much as the info. We report, you decide.
"Ex-Chairman of A.I.G. Says Bailout Has Failed" was a text most likely intended for the print edition of the New York Times business pages. The newswriting formula that produced it dates from before the Web made all news and reference pages equidistant from the user. He said, she said might have been seen as good enough when it was difficult for others to check what had previously been reported about the ex-chairman of A.I.G., but that is simply not the case for Times reporter Edmund L. Andrews in April, 2009.
There has been a loss of refuge. And this is why he said, she said journalism is in decline, even though you still see plenty of it around. Today, any well informed blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can easily find the materials to point out an instance of false balance or the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Professional opinion has therefore shifted and among the better journalists, some of whom I know, it is no longer acceptable to defend he said, she said treatments when the materials are available to call out distortions and untruths. (That doesn't mean the practice has halted; I'm talking about a shifts in the terms of legitimacy among journalists, and about efforts like this.)
In fact, it's taken a long time to get to this point. Back in 2004 setting a higher standard than he said, she said was still a novel idea. Chris Mooney wrote about it in the context of science coverage under Bush. ("How 'Balanced' Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality.") As CJR's Campaign Desk noted…
The candidate makes a statement. You write it down, then you call the other side for a response. It's one of journalism's fundamentals. Tell us what he said, tell us what she said, and you're covered, right?Well, no. Given the amount of spin this election year, the old rules don't apply any more. Campaign Desk herewith proposes a new ground rule: "He said/she said/we said."
… With a variety of Internet research tools readily at hand, it has never been easier for reporters to draw an independent assessment on any given day of who is right, who is wrong, and in what way.
The tools are there to make an independent assessment of who is right: for journalists, that is the critical point. (See also my post from 2004, He Said, She Said, We Said and Rethinking Objectivity by Brent Cunningham from 2003.) Because of that—and because of working the refs, the Overton Window, the failures of the political press under Bush—he said, she said no longer has the acceptance rates it once did. Which is why it was so easy to get Ryan Chittum to answer my question, "is this the best the Times can do?"
It wasn't. And it's easier than ever to show that. More people are involved in showing it, too. This raises the question of whether a he said, she said treatment loses you more in user disgust with your lameness than any informational gain in having fresh news to report about Hank Greenberg trading barbs with A.I.G. Do people want to feel helpless in sorting out who's bullshitting them more? Is that the news media's role, to increase that feeling? Is such a practice even sustainable in the Web era?
That it may not be (and the industry knows it) is shown by what The Politico called a "high-stakes experiment" at the AP's Washington bureau. The plan was to move "from its signature neutral and detached tone" to a more aggressive style of newswriting that bureau chief Ron Fournier calls ōcutting through the clutter.ö
In the stories the new boss is encouraging, first-person writing and emotive language are okay.So is scrapping the stonefaced approach to journalism that accepts politiciansÆ statements at face value and offers equal treatment to all sides of an argument. Instead, reporters are encouraged to throw away the weasel words and call it like they see it when they think public officials have revealed themselves as phonies or flip-floppers.
In other words, we can't skate by on he said, she said any more. Call it like they see it is, in fact, a successor principle but this means that AP reporters are now involved in acts of political judgment that can easily go awry, and their own politics can be at issue.
Time to wrap this up.
Part of the problem is that American journalism as an occupational scene has never gone for the candor Paul Taylor showed in his comments on searching for the halfway point between the best and the worst that might be said. The pro system talks about the reporting of news as a truth-telling enterprise, but not a difference-splitting or dilemma-disposing one. It says: we're the source of "the most authoritative news coverage," as the AP recently put it. But it rarely mentions the refuge-seeking part, which subtly undermines that authority.
As I tried to explain in Why Campaign Coverage Sucks (published at TomDispatch.com and Salon, January 2008) there is an "innocence agenda" at work in the mainstream press. It favors certain practices:
Who's-gonna-win is portable, reusable from cycle to cycle, and easily learned by newcomers to the press pack. Journalists believe it brings readers to the page and eyeballs to the screen. It [plays] well on television, because it generates an endless series of puzzles toward which journalists can gesture as they display their savviness, which is the unofficial religion of the mainstream press.But the biggest advantage of horse-race journalism is that it permits reporters and pundits to play up their detachment. Focusing on the race advertises the political innocence of the press because "who's gonna win?" is not an ideological question. By asking it you reaffirm that yours is not an ideological profession.
In its heyday he said, she said was like a stamping plant in the factory of news. It recognized that production demands trumped truthtelling requirements. But these were the production demands of a beast that is now changing. Refusing to serve as a check on Hank Greenberg's power to distort the news when the means for a such a check are available— this too can have a cost, just as importing the knowledge to do the check has a cost. At a certain point in this dynamic, he said, she said journalism loses its utility and becomes one of the things dragging the news business down. But as the industry sheds people and newsrooms thin out, there could be greater reliance on a more and more bankrupt and trust-rotting practice. That's a downward spiral.
Criticism of he said, she said practices and the flippancy that comes with it should therefore continue. The other day, Paul Kane of the Washington Post said it was too much to expect him to import into his account the background knowledge that a Republican Senator warning about the dangers to Senate comity of proceeding with only 50 votes had voted to do the same thing when her party held the majority but not 60 votes. (Matthew Yglesias picked up on it.)
Kane said he was astonished by this demand; he couldn't figure out where it was coming from. "We reported what Olympia Snowe said. ThatÆs what she said. ThatÆs what Republicans are saying. I really donÆt know what you want of us."
If he's not just blowing smoke, and he really doesn't know— that is a problem for the Washington Post.
After Matter: Notes, reactions & links…
Richard Sambrook of the BBC comments on this post. He has some reservations about my critique.
Mike Allen of The Politico has a twist on he said, she said. He said (on the record, can be held accountable) "it" said (off the record and unaccountable.) The "it" is the official Bush administration view, spoken by a mouthpiece known only to Allen. The mouthpiece was allowed to attack Obama for harming national security by releasing evidence that torture had been authorized by the Bush Adminstration. For a frank exchange of views on he said, it said reporting see Mike Allen to Glenn Greenwald and back to Mike Allen.
Can a fact lapse from "true" back into a more tenuous state if major pressure is put upon it? See this from The Plum Line, Greg Sargent's blog at WhoRunsGov, a Washington Post site still in ramp up:
TodayÆs New York Times has published a whole article devoted to the claim by former Bushies, and some Republicans, that ObamaÆs release of the torture memos endangered our national security by revealing secret torture techniques that we can now never use again.It is a matter of simple fact that much about these techniques were already publicly known, well before ObamaÆs release of the memos.
But todayÆs Times treats this as a matter of debate, as a claim being made by ōDemocratsö Ś even though the Times has itself reported this as outright fact in the past.
Read the rest. As Sargent points out, the truth claim that is now in dispute—did Obama tip off the terrorists with new information about what they might face?—is suspect according to the Times earlier reporting. But it is now framed in he said, she said terms.
Why would that happen? From the perspective of this post, the answer is: there are gains on the innocence (or, "extra studious neutrality") agenda to be had now, whatever was said before. These offset the losses on a strict truthtelling scale. Is it like a conscious decision they made? No, it's not. Newsroom routines do most of the "thinking" here.
Dana Milbank pens a little masterpiece of he said, she said reasoning. He finally reads his comments and discovers—what else?—angry people on both sides denounce him. Of course, Milbank is a columnist and wit as much as a reporter, but he is the sort of columnist who tries to be sandpaper to both sides. The idea is for the friction to be turned to laughs.
One of the nifty things about this gadget: when the political reasoning that creates the friction takes withering criticism, the author can just switch to the satire track and gain on the "look ma, no politics" agenda that way. Critics turn into humorless scolds. Thus David Carr of the New York Times said on Twitter that "Dana Milbank seemed to be having fun" with the criticism, not complaining about getting hit from both sides. Give him a break!
And after you give him a break read Digby on Milbank because her post is also about this post. She adds a few things I wish I had included.
Witness this On the Media segment that's really a bitter struggle over the legacy of he said, she said reporting, and the mistrust it has engendered.
What an interesting summary by Michael Scherer, political reporter for Time magazine, at the Swampland blog: "Jay Rosen, new media deep-thinker, scourge, scold and provocateur, makes a substantial argument for reporters making more of an effort to take sides in public disputes when facts can be ascertained."
Not to be picky—thought you have to be with this subject!—but I did not say additional effort should be expended in "taking sides" (a signal to journalists to freak out) but in calling out lies and distortions. But… If "calling out lies and distortions" equals "taking sides" to Scherer, that might help explain why it's an infrequent practice. For then refusing to call out lies and distortions means refusing to take sides, and that's a good thing in journalism… right?
Scott Rosenberg, who has written a really good book on blogging that's out in July, in the comments:
A great value hesaid/shesaid used to have for the working journalist — and I think this is real value — was as a check against unfairness. It forced you, the reporter, to give at least a little space to a point of view you disagreed with.In the days when you, the reporter, controlled the mike (along with your colleagues and rivals at other publications), this was an important safeguard. If you didn't give some space to "the other side of the argument" that you were making (either explicitly or, more often under the "objectivity" standard, covertly), it might well not have been heard at all.
Today there's less need for it, he says.
John Walcott, McClatchy's Washington bureau chief, in the comments. "This is a topic that deserves more attention, along with beat-sweeteners, access journalism (an oxymoron) and other afflictions of modern life." He left a link to his excellent I.F. Stone award lecture:
Does the truth lie halfway between say, slavery and abolition, or between segregation and civil rights, or between communism and democracy? If you quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Winston Churchill, in other words, must you then give equal time and credence to Hitler and Joseph Goebbels? If you write an article that's critical of John McCain, are you then obligated to devote an identical number of words to criticism of Barack Obama, and vice versa?
Patrick Nielsen Hayden comments at Making Light: "ItÆs unclear whether [Paul] Taylor realizes, implicitly or otherwise, how this rhetorical posture makes him the willing servant of whichever powerful person or organization decides to stake out a completely crazy position." (This is the dynamic that has since gained a name: the Overton Window.)
Cheryl Rofer: He said, she said and the usual suspects. Some testimony from New Mexico.
More from Ryan Chittum on he said, she said: WaPo Skittish on Its Own Chrysler Scoop.
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John McQuaid responds to this post: "The problem with [he said, she said] is that it implicitly assumes what everyone now knows to be wrong: that public figures make statements that can be taken at face value, and the truth can be ascertained by juxtaposing contradictory statements. ItÆs been obvious for some time that this is unworkable because the public 'conversation' is too splintered, its participants too practiced and manipulative."
Fred Zipp, editor of the Austin American Statesman, says its hard to quarrel with my conclusions. However, "Rosen pays scant attention to the practical difficulties of the truth-telling function he considers appropriate for journalists in 2009."
Mark Danner, writing about torture during the Bush years in the New York Review of Books:
It is a testament as much to the peculiarities of the American pressŚto its "stenographic function" and its institutional unwillingness to report as fact anything disputed, however implausibly, by a high officialŚthat the former vice-president's insistence that these interrogations were undertaken "legally" and "in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles" continues to be reported without contradiction, and that President Bush's oft-repeated assertion that "the United States does not torture" is still respectfully quoted and, in many quarters, taken seriously. That they are so reported is a political fact, and a powerful one. It makes it possible to contend that, however adamant the arguments of the lawyers "on either side," the very fact of their disagreement makes the legality of these procedures a matter of partisan political allegiance, not of law.
A 2007 post from Australian critic Julie Posetti on the Howard Government and he said, she said reporting there.
Eric Alterman and Danielle Ivory write on The George Will global cooling controversy and the reactions of Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.
By letting Will express himself Bush-style, without being inconvenienced by any actual science, The Post was saying, yes, opinion writers are not merely entitled to their own opinions, but also their own ōfacts.ö (Though Hiatt preferred to call these ōinferencesö):ōIt may well be that he is drawing inferences from data that most scientists rejectŚso, you know, fine, I welcome anyone to make that point. But donÆt make it by suggesting that George Will shouldnÆt be allowed to make the contrary point. Debate him.ö
HiattÆs argument that George Will ought to be able to make a dissenting point, regardless of its basis in reality, is an argument for false balance, he-said-she-said journalism, in lieu of real analysis. On March 23, Chris Mooney asked a smart follow-up question in the Post: ōCan we ever know, on any contentious or politicized topic, how to recognize the real conclusions of science and how to distinguish them from scientific-sounding spin or misinformation?ö
Chris Mooney at his Discover Magazine blog responds to this post. "Is 'He Said, She Said, WeÆre Clueless' Coverage Dying?" Mooney does not think so.
This Julian Sanchez post from three years ago is notable for its description of "one-way hash arguments," a major factor in the rise of he said, she said reporting.
If you're interested in where this is all headed, then you are definitely a customer for Rosen's Flying Seminar in the Future of News, an earlier post at PressThink.
Future-of-news blogger Josh Young, who was featured in my Flying Seminar, says in the comments to this post.
So, sure, maybe sometimes it's embarrassing to pass the buck of analysis. It's reveals an intellectual lack of seriousness. But maybe other times it's just what works best, allocating responsibilities to the parties most able and interested in bearing them."This news has got to get out the door!" a newspaper editor might say. "Let's revisit our he said, she said simplicity in a minute or an hour," he might say. "We can post a link from the original to the update later. Maybe that thoughtful update will be ours, written not by an intern but by a wise veteran. But maybe it won't…."
In January, Harvard's Shorenstein Center published a study by Eric Pooley, former managing editor of Fortune. He shows that he said, she said "stenography" is the pathetic norm in climate change reporting. The right role is to be an active referee, calling fouls when there are fouls. But it is rarely done. Here's the Environment Defense Fund blogger on it, with a link to the PDF.
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Hollywood's version of the Junior Gotti family story is being bankrolled by Irish construction magnate Fay Devlin, a Tyrone native based in New York. There are reports that he has invested $10 million.
Devlin was approached by Marc Fiore, a movie producer from the Jersey Shore, enlisted and entrusted by John Gotti Jr to tell his story. New York Magazine reports that Fiore approached Devlin at a Yankees game and pitched a joint partnership, to become a 50-50 partner in Fiore Films.
Fiore already had the right to tell the "factual" story of John Gotti Jr's life, how his father's career as the head of the legendary Gambino crime family affected the family and how Gotti Jr eventually made the decision to leave Mafia life.
John Gotti Jr copped a plea, chose his own sons over his father and did seven years in prison. Now he's looking to tell his story in Hollywood.
At the age of 24 Devlin, an Irish immigrant from County Tyrone, established Eurotech, a Manhattan-based construction company now with more than $80 million in annual sales.
Although Fiore and Devlin had no Hollywood experience they were unapologetic in being passionate about getting this movie made.
Devlin told New York Magazine "Of course we are outsiders; so is everybody at some stage.
"You have to listen to your gut…This is a no-brainer."
John Gotti Jr, now 48, and a resident in Long Island, realized after he was released from prison that he no longer had his father's Mafia empire to fall back on. What he did have was a story.
After putting feelers out in Los Angeles they realized producers and stars were interested. Sylvester Stallone, of "Rocky" and "Saturday Night Fever" fame, showed interest but wanted near-total control and wasn't offering enough money.
John Travolta read for the John Gotti senior part and agreed to do it for $10 million. The two men, Gotti junior and Travotla bonded over the death of their two sons.
Devlin was active in the Irish peace process and is a major supporter of Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams
When the movie ht a rough patch a Deadline New York columnist wrote "I'm told that Fiore's major backer, a New York-based construction mogul named Fay Devlin, recently began questioning what he had gotten himself into after Fiore paid high prices to sign talent to pay-or-play deals."
Now the movie named "Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father" on IMDB is in "pre-production" and is tentatively set for release in 2013.


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The Cynar flip was first published in Jefferey Morgenthaler's The Bar Book, an excellent publication from 2014 that also sports a title which is very hard to work into a sentence non-awkwardly. Morgenthaler credits the drink to Ben Sandrof, who arrived at the idea while working on "a sort of ice cream with fernet-branca." While The Bar Book, has become a standout in the latest class of contemporary cocktail books, the Cynar flip hasn't enjoyed nearly as much publicity. This is a shame, as this simple recipe belongs amongst the other winter greats, and should have a special appeal to those who love complex and bitter cocktails. Indeed, this may be one of the best ways to experience Cynar; the creaminess from the egg complements the amaro's bitter complexity perfectly, and creates an unforgettable combination of vegetal complexity and milkshake-like consistency. Often, Cynar is paired with other strong flavors to balance intensity with more intensity, but the Cynar flip walks in the opposite direction, opening up the complexity of one ingredient in minimalist fashion, all to amazing results.
The Cynar flip is perfect for the amari lover, and it doesn't need to be limited to Cynar. We dreamt up several bitter replacements—from fernet and Zucca to amaro Ciociaro or Campari—that could make for an amazing variation, and we're excited to riff on this formula each holiday season. The recipe does not easily form a frothy head worthy of a discerning eye, so those who are pickier will want to dry shake for a full twenty seconds before shaking again for another full twenty seconds over ice. This drink is best when thick and icy, so the extra shaking will be worth it. It also helps to choose appropriate glassware; varieties with moderate proportions and slightly narrower mouths will fare better than traditional wide-mouthed cocktail glasses. If you don't have the glassware, don't let it stop you. From amazing holiday staples like the rum flip to the coffee cocktail, the flip family is an excellent and underrated category of drinks, and this one might be among the strongest additions we've tried.


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How Do You Deal With Missing Out On Voice Over Jobs?
As a voice over professional, you're used to auditioning and often being told someone else got the gig. The Voice Realm voice talent Marc, gives details on how he deals with defeat.
I love October baseball. I don't quite know what it is about it. There's just a magic in the air. You can feel it. Fans cheer a little louder. Players play a little harder. You see catches and hits that just don't seem to happen in the regular season. It's part of the mystery that makes it beautiful. It's what makes us want to keep watching.
If I Were A Betting Man
If I were a betting man, I would have lost my shirt this past week, as the playoffs began. I've never got it so wrong as I did during the divisional round. I picked Baltimore, Cincinnati, Washington and Oakland. FAIL! All four of my picks didn't make it through. Good thing I'm not a betting man!
I sat through a lot of defeats last week watching baseball.
September was one of my best months in voice over. I felt like I could do no wrong. It caught me off guard, if I'm being honest. I seemed to book everything I really wanted. I set a number of goals for the month with regards to how many auditions I'd submit, how many jobs I'd try and book, and how much money I'd earn. I not only met, but exceeded all of my goals in September.
Then came October.
The win streak carried on for the first week. I was looking forward to another banner month. I was excited. I was smiling from ear to ear. I felt unbeatable. My confidence was soaring and I knew that was coming through in my auditions. I believed I could book any job if I set my mind to it.
When The Winning Steak Ends
The second week of October for my voice over business played out almost identical to my picks for the divisional series playoffs in baseball.
I sat through a lot of defeats.
I wasn't booking anything I was auditioning for. I was turned down for a job by a client I've worked with for several years. A couple of voice over demos I submitted that I felt really confident about, turned out to be the equivalent of three pitch strikeouts. By the end of the week, it would have been really easy for me to just cut my losses, take the rest of the week off and retreat to my couch for more baseball.
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The fact of the matter is, rejection, or defeat, is part of the game when you do voice over for a living. As much as you'd like to book every job and think you can and will book every job, the reality is, you're not going to book every job.
The key is to remember that most of the time, it probably isn't a reflection of your skill or ability. It's just the nature of the game. You won't fit every role.
The Orioles will take the field again next year. So will the A's, the Nationals and the Reds. They'll do it because that's how the game works. You take your losses, put them where they belong; behind you. Then you pick up, dust off and look where it matters most. Ahead! Voice over is the same. You take each audition and put it behind you. Then you shift you focus to where it needs to be. Ahead of you. On that next voice over audition. On that next gig.
You take your losses, put them where they belong; behind you. Then you pick up, dust off and look where it matters most. Ahead!
It's not fun to strikeout. We want every swing to be a game winning homer. But those big swings will never happen if we quit coming to plate!
I went out this weekend and had some fun embarrassing myself on the bowling lanes (I got whooped by a 10 year old). I put last week and those defeats behind me. Today is Monday. A new day. A new week. Another chance to step up to the plate and start swinging for the fences again. Let's do this!
What do you do when you have a tough week of auditions or rejections? How do you push through?
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Researchers are programming robots to communicate with people using human-like body language and cues, an important step toward bringing robots into homes.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia enlisted the help of a human-friendly robot named Charlie to study the simple task of handing an object to a person. Past research has shown that people have difficulty figuring out when to reach out and take an object from a robot because robots fail to provide appropriate nonverbal cues.
"We hand things to other people multiple times a day and we do it seamlessly," says AJung Moon, a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. "Getting this to work between a robot and a person is really important if we want robots to be helpful in fetching us things in our homes or at work."
Moon and her colleagues studied what people do with their heads, necks and eyes when they hand water bottles to one another. They then tested three variations of this interaction with Charlie and the 102 study participants.
Programming the robot to use eye gaze as a nonverbal cue made the handover more fluid. Researchers found that people reached out to take the water bottle sooner in scenarios where the robot moved its head to look at the area where it would hand over the water bottle or looked to the handover location and then up at the person to make eye contact.
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