cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All out of options. I have to go back to covering hell. I pitched coverage of the anticipated January 20th "militia day" in Virginia's capitol to both The Guardian and The Daily Beast. I covered all sorts of bad shit for The Daily Beast. Fallout from 8/12, alt-right rallies in various states. It was going fine, then they didn't pay me. For months, with some stupid technical problem. I was pissed off enough at them that I stopped sending them new stories. At the time, I had plenty of new work coming in from Rewire. Eventually, I got pissed off at Rewire as well when they didn't even give me an interview for an open position in DC and also pretty well ignored me when a neo-Nazi shot up a news room in Annapolis and then guys like me were right in the crosshairs. So now I haven't been in the mix for over a year. I haven't been pitching shit to new outlets in over two years. I am in the wilderness and broke and desperate. Yesterday I pitched to the now national editor of The Daily Beast. I didn't hear back, so tonight I pitched to the US features editor of The Guardian. The event that I offered to each of them was the "lobby day" on 01/20 in Richmond, Virginia, when thousands of armed militia members will show up to advocate for their position. This has the potential to turn into a disastrous, violent event. I know how to cover something like that. Antifa and militia and various nutcases all coming together in the street. I can do that. I don't want to be that guy anymore. But I don't know what else to do for a living. I have about $30 in cash left and that is literally everything I have left. I don't want to keep doing this, but I don't know how else to survive. 1:09 a.m. - 2020-01-09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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