AngryJournalist.com

... asks, Why are you angry today?

AngryJournalist.com is for the underpaid, overworked, frustrated, pissed off and ignored media professionals to publicly and anonymously vent their anger. Share your story. With any luck, you'll feel better.

The creator explains his motivations:

I created this site for several reasons. In private conversations with friends I sensed that there is a growing angst among the upcoming crop of journalists entering the field right now. Journalism-school graduates have the odds stacked against them.

More than likely, their education was inadequate — it’s rare that new media skills were taught or were de-emphasized — making the majority of them less competitive. The job market is terrible. More companies are having hiring freezes — or worse, layoffs — meaning fewer opportunities are available. It’s an instance where supply greatly outnumbers demand. And of what jobs are available, these entry-level jobs pay poorly. It’s even worse in broadcast media.

Couple this together with an industry that’s getting hammered by Wall Street. Stock prices are tumbling, circulation’s falling or remaining stagnant at best, advertising dollars in print aren’t being replaced by online revenues and the pressure increases from above to keep tightening belts and “do more with less.”

First, the obvious: There's nothing less valuable as journalism than a flood of anonymous comments from people you don't know.

Second, I worked more than two dozen jobs before becoming a journalist, and people bitched and moaned about their workplace at all of them. The plight of journalists isn't unique.

And finally, for goddsake, young fella, this is the golden age of journalism: Never before in the history of the world have you had access to as many sources of information, as many outlets for your writing or as large an audience as you have now. The Man can't stop you from publishing anything you want at any time, and it costs you next to nothing.

Get over it.