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I'll be honest, I'm a bit surprised and disappointed by the lack of support for my application among the good folk of TLW

 

Some people on here are of the opinion that the club is already paying one Brendan to talk absolute bollocks. Paying another might just push them over the edge.

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Slightly off-topic but I've always why you needed a degree to prove you can report...

 

Sure providing evidence of being a competent writer (how many journos are really GOOD writers now anyway) and being able to meet a deadline I get, but a degree? To report facts? I just don't see it...

 

You don't see how spending 3 years training under experienced professionals, learning how to interview, learning the legal aspects of slander, defamation and contempt of court, honing your writing, learning shorthand, understanding how press conferences work, learning to work to tight deadlines, learning how to work under an editor, learning how to use the very specific (and ever changing) technology, experiencing the pressure first hand, dealing with breaking news and everything else that goes with it would be of benefit?

 

Fair enough.

 

The wires will be buzzing and they will have hundreds upon hundreds of applicants, it's an incredibly competitive industry and the one that gets it will have CV that is ridiculously full.

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You don't see how spending 3 years training under experienced professionals, learning how to interview, learning the legal aspects of slander, defamation and contempt of court, honing your writing, learning shorthand, understanding how press conferences work, learning to work to tight deadlines, learning how to work under an editor, learning how to use the very specific (and ever changing) technology, experiencing the pressure first hand, dealing with breaking news and everything else that goes with it would be of benefit?

 

Fair enough.

 

The wires will be buzzing and they will have hundreds upon hundreds of applicants, it's an incredibly competitive industry and the one that gets it will have CV that is ridiculously full.

 

It's about who you know in journalism not what you know.

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I'll be honest, I'm a bit surprised and disappointed by the lack of support for my application among the good folk of TLW

 

There's as much chance of you getting it as there is of them replacing Paul Tomkins' column with my weekly Premier League round ups.

 

We're outlaws you and me, this site is like old Mexico.

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