Why Rory Gilmore Is a Terrible Journalist
In Season 5 of Gilmore Girls, newspaper publishing magnate Mitchum Huntzberger sits down aspiring journalist Rory Gilmore, an intern at the Stamford Eagle-Gazette, and gives her an unsolicited performance review. “I’ve worked with a lot of young people over the years,” says Huntzberger, who also happens to be the father of Rory’s boyfriend at Yale, Logan. “Interns, new hires. I’ve got a pretty good gut sense for people’s strengths and weaknesses….
“And I’ve to got to tell you,” he says. “You don’t got it.”
Bam! Print it.
As a fan of the show, you may have loathed the Huntzberger lion, but as a journalist, I respect his bluntness. As withering as Huntzberger’s review sounded more than a decade ago, back before the term “newspaper publishing magnate” was an anachronism,illustrate. Never mind deadlines; she cannot even master a paper route.
