alt Hacker NewsYes. Journalists don't make a living from journalism, they live on family money. That's why working class journalists have disappeared along with working class perspectives.
It was once a job where many if not most of the practitioners didn't have a college degree, now it is the most expensive graduate school program you can do. I think the median price is something like $250K.
If you don't pay writers, you eliminate all of the writers who have to work for a living.
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NicuCalcea • yesterday at 9:51 PM
TIL I and my friends and colleagues live on family money.
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ghaff • yesterday at 7:43 PM
Don't disagree with the general point but I'm not sure J-School was ever a particularly good entree into journalism. Most of the journalists I know and knew didn't have the grad degree.
Plenty of journalists I know about (because I read them a lot and they sometimes talk about self) did mot wemt to j-school.
Also, they dont live in parents houses.
You are making stuff up about lives of journalistals to invalidate their claims.