wonderdallas wrote:most of the excitement in my job has been replaced with much frustration. The guys in charge seem more interested in ratings than journalism. ... ultimately I think my conscience is out weighing my want of job security.
Man, do I hear that. Back in the late 1990s I was a copy editor at a newspaper. I came in with a lot of idealism -- I wanted to help people Know Things They Need To Know and I really felt like I was involved in making the world a better place. But in news meetings the editor kept talking more about selling the paper, and then the Clinton-Lewinsky thing hit, so there was a deep sense of sensationalist yellow journalism for eight hours or more every single day (yikes!!) that really got to me after a while.
And here I was seeing important world events over the AP wire that they just didn't care about including in the paper because they thought people wouldn't be as interested in them. I left for other reasons in the end (conflict with my editor, who was a pretty nasty piece of work in general, and was gone after another year, probably due to his unprofessional behavior) but I think I'd have gotten burned out for those reasons after a bit longer anyway, the same way you are. (Kind of trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life now after 7 years in editing for a different publication. I think I'm sick of editing.)
Re dinosaurs I think of
C.S. Lewis, who called himself a dinosaur too, and whose company I think is also good to be in.
Again I have to say that I am so glad the current ClanDestine series is set in the past, before all the present depressing storylines started, so we can ignore Civil War and Decimation with impunity. We don't need to see the Destine folks having to battle the SHRA. (Well, unless of course it's part of a storyline that sets things right again.
I am sure it will be set right eventually, I just don't know when.)
Hmmm. You know, with ClanDestine (set in the past), Spider-Girl (spinning out of the 1990s era), and Claremont's GeNext series (spinning out of the 1980s era), not to mention Millar's upcoming 1985 (I know it's by Millar, I'm just mentioning it as evidence), I wonder if this is a sign readers are missing the kinds of books we used to have a few years ago? I don't think people really want to read a Civil War world forever -- it's got novelty but no real staying power, I believe. DC is leading up to Final Crisis but they're going out of their way to say that this is the FINAL one, and from the way it's all being talked about I think the parallel worlds are here to stay -- and I notice they're bringing back all the cool fun toys of the past, so we have Hal Jordan back as GL, Kara Zor-El as Supergirl, Krypto, multiple Earths, the classic Legion (!!!!) in which Superman was a member back when he was younger but they can't yet call him Superboy (they're being coy about it, I am sure, till legal wrinkles are worked out, but they're doing what they can there), Batman is smart and somewhat dark but not depressingly dark or crazy, Wonder Woman helped start the JLA again, and so on. While the villains there are darker, the heroes are brighter than they've been in years -- so perhaps this is the turning of the tide...
(I see Infinite Crisis as kind of the anti-Civil War. In IC, the heroes found out that if they cross moral lines, like the whole mind-wiping thing, and betray their friends (Zatanna erasing Batman's memory), and don't trust each other, terrible things happen -- they learned from this, took a year off to get their heads on right, and had to forgive each other and keep trusting each other. In Marvel, they've set up a new ongoing paradigm of mistrust, and the people betraying each other get rewarded with being made head of SHIELD and such. Which is more heroic? Though again I am glad to read that Tony Stark is going to face that he did a lot of wrong, and try to, as they put it, "earn his soul back," so I'm glad to see that he's going to become a hero again.)
David