:singing:
"We've got the bubble-headed bleach blonde, comes on after five,
She can tell you 'bout the car bomb, with a gleam in her eye,
'It's good for us when soldiers die,
now back to dirty laundry!'"
Posted on 10/11/2007 2:14:36 PM PDT by abb
NEW YORK In its new feature, Worst Jobs for the 21st Century, Forbes magazine pegs the journalism profession as not exactly a hot ticket to a long career in coming decades.
After mentioning a few other professions in retreat -- including computer programmers (unless you live overseas) -- it gets to this:
"Another endangered species: journalists. Despite the proliferation of media outlets, newspapers, where the bulk of U.S. reporters work, will cut costs and jobs as the Internet replaces print. While current events will always need to be covered (we hope), the number of reporting positions is expected to grow by just 5% in the coming decade, the Labor Department says. Most jobs will be in small (read: low-paying) markets."
Elsewhere it explains: "As anyone who works in the news business can attest, sagging ad revenue, rising newsprint costs and Internet competition are quickly changing this industry. Large metropolitan dailies have cut jobs and the size of their papers. Of course there will always be a demand for news, but the government projects news jobs will grow at a meager 5% by 2014. Best places to look for work: small-town and suburban newspapers, TV and radio."
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‘Forbes’ Puts Journalists on Endangered Species List’
If they’re talking about individuals whose job it is to gather and report current events-objectively-I think they’re already extinct. ‘Spin’ has become an essential part of the shows that used to provide only news; it’s become as much a part of the presentation as physical appearance.
:singing:
"We've got the bubble-headed bleach blonde, comes on after five,
She can tell you 'bout the car bomb, with a gleam in her eye,
'It's good for us when soldiers die,
now back to dirty laundry!'"
HA HA Forbes magazine saying this???
How will the vast unwashed masses in the US know what to think without their commentaries?. They are so much more intelligent than the average citizen. The news ho’s are actually able to read from a teleprompter.
According to News over the wires, the original American newspapers were local and, lacking the not-yet-invented telegraph, they got news from distant souces no faster than the local shopkeeper did - and since they often were weeklies, and some didn't even have a deadline at all, there was little point in getting all breathless about scoops on distant events. IOW, they weren't all that different from our own small-town weeklies today, whose editors take for granted that their readers get national and international news first via broadcast or big-city newspapers or the Internet. And those early newspapers were openly partisan, including papers sponsored by Hamilton and Jefferson to wage their partisan battles with each other.What generated Big Journalism as we know and detest it was the telegraph and the Associated Press, a monopoly distributor of national news. When the AP (initally the New York Associated Press) started out in 1848 it was seen for the monopoly that it was, and its legitimacy was challenged. The AP responded by inventing objectivity - or at least, the pretense of it. But the reality is that what is good for America is good news, and what is good for Big Journalism is bad news. And that constitutes a perspective which cannot be legitimately characterized as "objective." But, they do it anyway . . .
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