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Everybody can find frustrations with their job. Whether you are a famous actress, a lawyer, or a welder at times you just want to pull your hair and scream in annoyance and despair.

Well, journalists are no different.

But now they have an outlet.

Kiyoshi Martinez has started a site on the Internet called AngryJournalist.com

It's a place for journalists to go and vent their frustrations about their job, and the best part is, they can do it anonymously so that their boss doesn't know they harbour secret hatred for the way they are asked to write their headlines or introduce themselves on the phone.

For example 'Angry Journalist #3524 wrote:

Wow, harsh, but effective. I bet this person felt a lot better after they were able to vent so violently.

Kiyoshi Martinez who started the website says "after [having] private conversations with other friends of mine who were journalists at the time, I began to wonder if others shared our views of the industry and if the problems we saw in our newsrooms were universal." He sees the site as a way for everyone to see this.

After checking out similar sites such as Overheard in the Office and PostSecret he wanted to start a site of his own.

Kiyoshi says his site has been doing really well so far. "I think there's significant interest from the journalism community, both professional, retired, student and even those that interact with journalists" he says.

He sees the site as a way to cater to peoples' curious nature. "In general, I think people like anonymous confessional booths, or just gossip in general" he says. "Obviously, I think more read than contribute" but postings are growing daily.

Kiyoshi does monitor the site to a degree, but most of the postings are original in their form. "I approach the site's comments much like I did when I was the assistant opinions editor at my school paper when we received letters to the editor" he states. "I just use my own judgment and try to be fair about what goes through". There is very little that he doesn't allow however.

So if you're a journalist and you're feeling stressed, why not go to the site and vent your anger? Or if you're not a journalist, maybe have a look and see what journalists complain about when they're not trying to change the world.

AngryJournalist.com