Comments on Another Sign of the Times

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Do journalists really want to find out how little the public cares about them? No good cam come of this.

Journalists ARE like cattle, aren't they? The reason they don't get paid more is because there's a limitless supply of them. And what most journalists do can be done just as well by thousands of others.

On the other hand, when you allow the market to turn you towards the lowest common denominator, you get garbage. Newspapers are turning into garbage. Magazines aren't, though.

I was a newspaper reporter for eight years. To be truthful, I really wasn't all that good at it ... I had a hard time reconciling the amount of time and effort it took to do a fantastic job worth feeling proud of, when in return you were paid pennies on the dollar.

Journalists at large metro dailies are paid a decent salary. I think the angryjournalist types are at small-to-medium papers, which traditionally have demanded long hours at low pay, with the idea that people will move on to bigger papers and the paper can replace them with the next crop of j-school grads.

WE are so proud we don't have angry jopurnalists here in Seattle. We are the Nicest People inthe World. Why look at our local journalism today: local sports star has a dream of a stadium; Indian curry shouldn't be prepackaged; a columnist who is "mad" that someone called environmentalists a bad word.

Of course, this also means our journalists are nice to those in power, too. Wonderful! This keeps the powerful happy, the public happy, we are all so happy.

Oh Eli, you think I'm nuts? I work at the same paper you used to work at - I dare not even mention its name here. I've posted on angry several times as have my pals here at work, but nuh-uh, no way, no how am I going to use my real name. Maybe when I quit...

fnarf, you are consistently idiotic.

I love how the Internet is the answer--why should there be newspapers now since we have the Internet. So of course media organziations no longer need journalists becuase there's the Internet. Umm, who is supposed to write the content for the Internet?

I'm sorry but I think there is still value in having local people write about local events. And, not to put too fine a point on it but journalists have blown the whistle on some of the major events in the last 30 years through their research and reporting. Perhaps there's some value in their work after all.

Fnarf:

Magazines are hit hard by this too -- They're losing ad revenue and cutting staff as a result. Staff that wrote a small number of quality pieces a week are now expected to churn out blog posts daily. Fact checking and copy-editing aren't as much of a priority. Paper quality is being reduced too.

So, it's really not just newspapers, it's print media in general.

How does one do a search on the site? I can't wait to get the scoop from Dallas Morning News insiders.

Thnx.

omg lol lmao www -- I used to work at that paper 70 miles from Seattle, and I bet I can pinpoint the little whiner who posted that crap. I'm sorry to see his stuff immortalized here.

Sigh.

All these reporter dudes got big heads after the last season of The Wire.

@3: The word is "toward," not "towards." And you don't know what you're talking about.

Unhappy journalists? Naaaw...

@ 13 ... listening to assholes correct grammar in a snotty way ... that makes me angry.