Cary Tennis Gives Advice to Shy Journos--Join the Copy Desk

FBLA knew that if we waited long enough, something wonderful would cross our path. Cary Tennis, Salon’s idiot-savant of advice, gets a letter from a student of journalism who hates asking rude questions of strangers. This innocent asks Tennis how to cope and gets a bunch of long-winded gooblety-gook in reply and then this revealing epicus:

I worked five years in a dull corporate job doing technical manuals about oil tankers. That’s how I got my job at Salon.

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