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Re: Foggy's position post-s2

[(Anonymous)]

LOL glad I'm not the only lawyer here who called bs on that. But I have pro journo friends who can't stop calling bs on Karen being named onto the Bulletin staff and getting a corner office.

Re: Foggy's position post-s2

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh the Karen reporter storyline more immediately made me stop, pull back from the story and be like "THAT'S NO HOW JOURNALISM WORKS WRITERS. HAVE YOU ONLY WATCHED HACKNEYED CLICHED MOVIES? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO HIRE A JOURNALISM CONSULTANT?"

I'm not even a journalist, but even I was saying fuck off at that point. Not to say I object to her becoming a reporter - I think that's great. But the execution was really lacking.

For a few reasons.

1) The primary qualifier in being a journalist isn't research. It's being able to write, something Karen up to that point never showed a particular aptitude for. You don't win Pulitzer for how much information you gather, you win them for telling a great story.

2) Ellison tells her at one point "We have to fill Sunday's paper with something". Cut to Christmas Eve (months later) and he's still talking to her like she hasn't filed a single story yet. Is she working for them or just creeping Ben's office fixated on one article? That may or may not be an editorial instead of fact-based?

3) Also, would it not be a huge problem for Matt and Foggy and a conflict of interest for her to write about a court case she worked on as an assistant to the defense? She wasn't in that courtroom with a press pass.

4) They repeatedly mentioned needing firm sources and things on the record, and I am baffled if she managed to find one provable thin to write about that wouldn't just be her own eyewitness accounts.

Sometimes I feel like the writers get really, really lazy and rely on completely TV and movie-only scenarios related to both the legal and journalism professions.

Also, I feel the same way about Karen getting Ben's office as I do about Frank burning down his family home. Which is to say, WTF was the thing still doing sitting there perfectly intact ready to be a symbol anyway? Offices get packed up after people die, and homes get sold or at least packed up by other relatives or family friends.

I love Daredevil so, so much but (similarly to the timeline issues leople are complaining about) their writers write what's on their wheelhouse and really in many ways don't think the logic of the rest of it through very well.

Re: Foggy's position post-s2

[(Anonymous)]

OP: THANK YOU. I love that Karen's got a new job, but LOL.

Re: Foggy's position post-s2

[(Anonymous)]

OP: Haa, yes. My journalist friend called me and yelled "IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY ON MY END" to which I replied "IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT ON THE LAWYER-Y END EITHER".

High-five, fellow lawyer! *5*

Foggy is SO not going to make it name partner. I firmly believe it was merely a bait for him AND that he'll bow out of there to be with Matt way before he gets partnership.