PROCESS

It happens about once a semester. A student comes into class or into the newsroom and proclaims there is “nothing to write about” on campus.


My head spins around Exorcist style after which I inform the student that: “There is always something to write about. It’s a lazy reporter who doesn’t find it.”


This usually is followed by a little KRGisms my students know well. It goes like this:
“Remove your ass from your chair and get out of the newsroom. Do you think the news is going to walk into the newsroom and go ‘Hi, I’m the news. Look at me. Put me in the paper?’ ”  KRG