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There are a few amazing club columnists in this town – three young, up-and-comers I can think of who create their own news, their own scene, and, their own "beat" -- but as posted above -- they simply do not write in print. Why?

I can venture a hypothesis, having been an extremely popular nightlife/club columnist in a smaller market prior to moving here ...

Hot media requires tremendously-gifted and innovative "talent recruiters" and "managing editors" who genuinely have vision - not the seasoned employment recruiters who have no reason to foster "chance". In addition, the jaded dinosaurs of yester-decade with all their 60's sensibilities, have so eagerly crushed any brilliant upstarts -- dead in their naive-platform/spiked-heel tracks. They simply have forgotten the worth of mentoring or how fast a "raw" new columnist can reset the ad rates while empting the racks of a newsstand. After all it is sooooo much better for them to be a tradition, albeit, a less and less interesting one.

Perhaps, I'll start sending a nightlife column to The Onion ... perhaps snippets too mired in "fantastic reality" one will begin to wonder if it really is wit and fiction ...
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