Where are the Mencken’s? Reporters today seem to have no concept of how their salaries are paid; The exception are syndicated columnists and small town reporters.
One of the many reasons that the news business is floundering is that the reporters have no concept of what it is to run a business.
They are paid because they are supposed to provide a service. They are supposed to know what the market is for their product. They have alienated the very people who pay the revenue for their product through advertising and subscriptions. They cannot continue to look at the “suits” as the bad guys. They resent the “suits” as the people who say “NO”. Yes, it is frustrating, but reporters seem like adolescents who resent that Dad has taken away the car keys. Of course, reporters these days do seem to not be much older than adolescents.
‘A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.’
H.L.Menken