Daily Inspiration Quote by Kate Adie

Nostalgia lands here with a sting: Kate Adie isn’t romanticizing a tougher era so much as exposing how profoundly the status of journalism has been flipped. Her opening line, “It wasn’t glamorous in my day,” works like a door slam on the modern fantasy of the reporter as mini-celebrity. Then she sharpens it with a detail that’s both petty and brutal: in the regions, reporters were “such low life” they didn’t even get listed in the Radio Times. That’s not just a complaint about snobbery; it’s a social ranking system. Journalism, especially outside London, sat close to the trades - functional, suspect, not a role that conferred prestige.

The subtext is a quiet moral contrast. Being unnamed isn’t framed as injustice; it’s presented as the baseline reality in which the work mattered more than the worker. By invoking the Radio Times - a domestic, ordinary cultural authority - Adie shows how deep the disregard ran: it wasn’t only elite institutions that ignored reporters, but everyday public culture.

“Now people are interested in being famous” isn’t a generic swipe at youth; it’s a critique of an ecosystem where attention is currency and visibility shapes incentives. Her closing line, “I never gave it a thought,” isn’t humblebrag so much as a credential. It signals an older professional ethic: the story over the self, the witness over the brand. In an era of byline-driven status, Adie’s point lands as both warning and lament: when the job becomes a route to fame, the job itself changes.