>>If you bother to pick up a copy of the Sunday New York Times and turn to the ever-thinner classified advertising section, and scan carefully under professional employment, you’ll be very lucky to find a category, “Help Wanted: Journalist”.<<
Yeah but with the next Vice President being a journalism major maybe that will change.
A few years back there were thirty journalism graduates for every entry level opening for a journalist. It would have to get a whole lot better to change that.
Woodward and Bernstein were a disaster for American journalism. Journalism school enrollment surged, swollen with would-be crusaders bent on saving the world and incumbents began taking their status as the Fourth Estate far too seriously.