Hitting close to home…

Okay, not THAT close to home… but it is kinda funny to see this in the back warehouse at the DNJ.

I mean, I don’t know the inner workings of things – I’m mean, I’m just the intern – but I’ve been noticing around town. The Daily News Journal’s little paper boxes are still very prolific. And what’s even more odd is how many of them are empty by the afternoon. I mean, its still got today’s paper in it, but its empty.

So, for this many to be out of service and still have that many? It still makes me feel good about things.

It means people always need/want the news and – oddly enough – they aren’t getting it online. Even when its semi-hometown and regional news like the DNJ.

However, the website is quite amazing, too, to be able to see its numbers. It gets a couple million hits a month! I had a gallery – that’s just a few dozen photos – get 30,000 hits in a little over 24 hours this week. I mean, it was just people at a function put on by the Chamber of Commerce!

Journalism is a good place to be. I don’t know if I’ll be doing beat/feature work my entire career – I actually kinda doubt it – but I know that, whatever I do, I’m going to really be okay.

And on a completely unrelated note, I made double awesome-ness today. I did a cover for the weekly insert (kinda like Parade magazine) and got to take home a slab of ribs from the guy I was photographing. THEN, I went to a little community function and they just about wouldn’t let me leave before I ate with them. And I met a really awesome elderly Sicilian man who could have been one of the dons from The Godfather.

Oh yeah, and its Flag Day…

…go hug a flag.

-Noah D.