Are all journalists really massive users of cocaine?

Yes?

Good thread

i fucking wish

what's a journalist?

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I have just discovered I'm a lot nicer than I thought I was because I still haven't posted the really mean joke that popped out at me immediately after Dom's post.

Real answer: I don't think any more than other social groups.

I was just wondering. It is such a standard when journalists are being discussed, like in a recent satirical piece by someone about Evening Standard journalists getting excited by the de Menezes guy having taken cocaine once.

advertising people use a lot of weed i've heard

Career moms eat their kids ritalin, too

Career moms eat their kids; ritalin, too.

it it true everyone in the navy is a binge alcoholic

What about doctors raiding the pharmacy?

Actually, there was some survey that said the people who drink the most as a proportion of their income level were booksellers. My former flatmate, who was selling books at the time, reckoned this was true. "Everyone at Borders has a failed dream," he said, looking at the bottom of his wine glass.

I don't think any more than other social groups.

-- Anna, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

no more than people *of their social group* (and age and wealth) but come on, probably a lot more than, you know, most of the country.

Actually, there was some survey that said the people who drink the most as a proportion of their income level were booksellers. My former flatmate, who was selling books at the time, reckoned this was true. "Everyone at Borders has a failed dream," he said, looking at the bottom of his wine glass.

-- Anna, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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I work in film and TV and I've never been offered cocaine and never seen anyone taking it.

you work too hard

thats because you are in england

im a journalists and i really use massive cocaine

i should be using so many more drugs

right now

:3

Yesandthisis1987.

if you could buy cocaine at teh corner store in a six-pack for $9.10 incl tax and deposit then whoa lord help us all i guess

tbh i have no idea how anyone manages to be at work on coke unless everyone else they work with is also on coke (e.g., journalists?)

How come south american countries manage to survive with all that cocaine

Working on cocaine would make me want to do body shots off of coworkers and change between Techno mp3s every 45 seconds

haha yes!

and pose with people for photos with stupid/"hot" looks on face!

or turn on the itunes visualizer and hit hot keys in time with the music

PALATE SWAPPPPPp

ok i'm kinda glad booze and coffee seem to have cornered my personal market
cigarettes tried in mind only but they are kinda too awesome/terrible for banalities of everyday use

ok i think newspaper journalists are the cocainists mostly

Actually, there was some survey that said the people who drink the most as a proportion of their income level were booksellers.

but could that be because their income is low?

and they are sad

they have no cocaines

Media salespeople tend to dwarf editorial types in terms of cocaine usage. This should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody.

I still think journalists may have a slight edge over other social groups, but hey, a lot of them don't earn that much and 'journalist' /= London-based meeja caricature.

(By which I mean, I'm fairly sure there are a greater proportion of journalists than, say, greengrocers taking coke).

There's a bit of differnce too, between say Julie Burchill and AA Gill and a junior reporter for the Scunthorpe Advertiser.

(Legal disclaimer, I know nothing about the drug use of the people named above, I just chose them as an example of famuous and wealthy journalists.)

I don't think most journalists in London can afford it TBH. As far as I can tell the standby is pints, g&t's and more pints.

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Actually, there was some survey that said the people who drink the most as a proportion of their income level were booksellers. My former flatmate, who was selling books at the time, reckoned this was true. "Everyone at Borders has a failed dream," he said, looking at the bottom of his wine glass.

This is certainly true of every bookseller I have lived with.

I work in a bookshop now.

Today someone started and I asked was she at college and she said "no I'm finished for two years".

"Arts degree?"

"Yep".

IT'S THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

*not scared*

i have never been offered cocaine on the job or off the job, but it's never too late

then again, i'm not a journalist

only the fun ones.

a guy i worked with almost died from an infection he got shooting coke with a dirty needle. but he was kind of an exception. most coke-using journalists i've known haven't used that much, and most journalists i've known don't use coke. booze much more prevalent, then tobacco, then weed. coke is at best a distant 4th.

(although mind you this is all print/broadsheet/alt-weekly people. in glossies or tv, i don't know.)

So yerman supervet what's going on there