a think I haven't seen much discussed is the effect of the collapse of wages in journalism discouraging anyone even remotely competent from becoming a journalist
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so anyone who is not independently wealthy and possessed of good sense is going to do something like computer science or statistics and I think you see this reflected in the quality of journalism, which as literature has fallen dramatically. not for only this reason, but.
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and it's a shame. journalism historically was often workaday yes. but you also had genuinely brilliant writers flexing their craft. New Journalism was real! it was not imaginary! and other journalists saw these stars writing and even if they did not reach that bar, they saw it
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Like T*yl*r L*r*nz and other nice bluechecks
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It’s also an option as a retirement job or if your spouse it the breadwinner! ;)
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