Let the entrepreneurial journalism jokes begin
Massimo Pulcini
Temple University journalism student Massimo Pulcini, 21, was arrested on drug charges Sunday night after police found marijuana in his house while investigating a home invasion.
Philly.com’s Morgan Zalot took a light approach to the story: “Insert jokes about journalists having to take side jobs to pay the bills here,” she wrote, adding: “Don’t worry, Pulcini, getting nabbed for having weed probably won’t affect your chances of getting a job in journalism — mostly because there are no jobs in journalism.”
That prompted one of my Twitter followers to tweet: “It’s SO cute and clever when people with jobs in journalism say there are no jobs in journalism.” One of Pulcini’s acquaintances wasn’t laughing about the bust, either. He tweeted: “You only arrest the guy in the house bc ur embarrassed that ur rent-a-bike-cop’s can’t find three armed men on foot.”
Pulcini says on his Twitter page that he’s a “Philadelphia journalist, photographer, and musician. Love to talk sports and music. I try to find those bands/artists you’ve never heard of yet.”
* Student pinched on drug charges after home invasion
* “The future is a bright one for this son of a gun”
What’s sad and unfortunate about this story is, because this guy happened to choose a worthless course of study like journalism — his name ends up being reported all over navel-gazing media sites like this. Had he chosen a more worthy cirriculum like science or engineeering, no one would have heard of this arrest and it likely wouldn’t show up in a google search. Journalism students: doubly damned…