We never expected high salaries; we just wanted reasonable pay, enough to make ends meet.
23% pay cut? I feel sorry for them, but the choice seems clear. Take the pay cut or look for work as the paper folds.
Journalists just don’t produce a unique product anymore. Finding someone that can write stories about local events just isn’t that difficult. Journalism is no long a profession in the same league as a doctor or lawyer. It is now more like a trade like auto mechanic or bricklayer.
>>Journalism is no long a profession in the same league as a doctor or lawyer. It is now more like a trade like auto mechanic or bricklayer.<<
Those take skill and knowledge. “Journalists” today can’t even use proper grammar, which is like a bricklayer not knowing how to make mortar. And, of course, sticking to objective facts has been missing for a generation or more.
Modern “journalists” practice burger flipping with words.
I don’t know. There are excellent bricklayers and auto mechanics who are masters of their crafts. Then there was the tile guy who was complaining about the quality and levelness of the subflooring. My wife complained to the forman. His reply, oh don’t pay any mind to that tile guy, “you should have seen him when he was really drinking.”
Journalists are expensive. Propagandists are a dime a dozen.
They're not even equal to the trades you mentioned.
If your mechanic screws up your tie rods, your car could swerve into oncoming traffic, killing you and your family.
If the "journalist" screws up, the reader cancels his subscription and lines his bird cage with something else. They are dead men walking.