What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?

In 2007 [in the USA], there were 55,000 full-time journalists at nearly 1,400 daily papers; in 2015, there were 32,900…

In a perspicacious comment by Thomas Lipscomb:

When reporters become “journalists” they ignore the market which sustains their economic model and start worrying about their peers in the business and handing one another awards and citations. And the journalists being hired out of the hothouses of American academia today are so deracinated from the market they need to serve that it became chic to have contempt for it as a great mob of the unwashed clinging to its guns and bibles. No more uncredentialed rough-hewn geniuses need apply these days. …

Alas, the only award that counts is circulation.

So now the “journalists” finally have the papers that cater to THEIR tastes and there just aren’t enough journalists buying news papers to support the new business model.

Well that’s why we have this blog.