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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  My best friend (who my mother adores), was actually educated at an Ivy.  Then went on to Columbia for a graduate degree in journalism.  While she was there, we became great friends with someone who I consider to be a wickedly funny, thoughtful writer and observer of the world.  He self identifies as a conservative liberal.

He took a job writing for FOX after graduation.  We couldn't make sense of it, until he told us that he wanted to spend a year writing for an entertainment circus.  He didn't believe anything he wrote for air, and said he approached it as if he was writing for the Onion.  He was shocked that he was never challenged, but celebrated.

We told him he sold his soul to the devil.

I told my mom a sanitized version of this very real situation, and she didn't speak to me for three weeks.  [/quote]

LOL! 
I want to school for media production and landed my first job at a right wing talk radio station and worked directly with one of the bigger nutjobs out there. My friends made fun of me for going to the dark side, and I was intimidated walking in there. But when I did, I realized I was surrounded by hippie, pot smoking, multicultural 20something instead of just the old white men I was expecting. Still friends with many of them today and we joke about how we sold our souls for those jobs.

It was just a job. We were producing **entertainment**, and looking for the next hot button issue. When we came across a great idea for a story that fit the station's views it was golden...I didn't have to agree with the position taken; I just had to know that it would generate some buzz.[/quote]

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