Newspaper Reporter Still the Worst Job in America

Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 21, 2016 | Don Irvine

[Vaduz]

How can being a newspaper reporter ranks as the worst job in America you get paid to make things up and lie too yeah that’s the ticket.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Last year's worst job 'Media Whore' was replaced by this year's worst job 'Assistant Media Whore'.

(with apologies to Norm MacDonald)

[CriticalJ]

Maybe it would be a better job if they actually reported instated of disseminating propaganda.

[IronJack]

Yet these hacks still strut around like they're the envy of the ball.

I would encourage a young person to become a 10-buck-a-throw prostitute at the nearest truck stop before I'd advise them to become a journalist.

[FreedomOfExpression]

From the title, I wondered whether the article was saying that reporters do worst at their job compared to other people, or if the job itself is worst in comparison to other jobs.
After reading the excerpt I know the gist of the article, but I still think the former is more true.

[seawolf101]

I stopped reading the newspaper many years not just because of bad reporting but also because of extremely poor grammar. I do not proclaim to be an English teacher but the local newspapers were extremely difficult to read. There were so many errors that I simply could not follow what they were trying to say. If they can’t even bother to learn to write at a grammar school level then we can forget asking them to show any integrity in their articles.

I read an article online that 6% of the population still trusts the media. I couldn’t believe it was that high. Who in their right might could trust anything the media says nowadays. I think that this was a rigged poll.

[hout8475]

[Intolerant in NJ]

The media jobs once coveted are now scorned...they did it to themselves with their constant and blatant partisanship, manipulation of the truth and arrogant bias.....

[Academiadotorg]

When I started out 35 years ago, if editors wanted to heap praise upon your copy, they would say, “It’s good English.” I doubt that they can pay anyone that compliment anymore.