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Dying Career #2: Reporter
Alternative Career: [Democrat] Public Relations Specialist
It’s worked for so many liberal reporters, why not?

I think that one is spot on because I compare reporters to musicians. It used to be that musicians only made money when they actually performed. Then technology allowed them to play once and sell that single performance as a recording to tens of thousands of people.

Then they applied marketing to the whole scheme and we eventually ended up with the industry that spawned magazines like Rolling Stone. Musicians not only sold to thousands of customers but they became stars.

And then technology attacked again, giving people the ability to copy existing recordings or create their own bands and record them. Being in a bar band could bring you serious cash in the 60’s and even in the 70’s. But it’s both easy and fun to be a musician. As more and more people did it, it got to the point that being in a bar band now is like being on a softball team in the later 20th century. And it pays squat. Most “musicians” are not in it for the money. They are either young and ignorant and think they will make it big or they just want enough money to pay for gas and maybe meet chicks.

And on the subject of reporters, I get more in depth and reliable information from unpaid (or low paid) bloggers than from the MSM. And everyone is a potential reporter - and it can be loads of fun.

Why should it pay real money when there are plenty of people who will do it for free or very little and anyone with a computer can get the word out. And thanks to search engines, it can be found.

Not to ramble too much, but it reminds me of the fear the FedGov had regarding color printers and counterfeiting. They stopped worrying about a guy printing a million $50 bills and were concerned about a million guys printing one $50 bill each. That is the kind of competitive market the MSM finds themselves in - small competitors too numerous to count leaving them to die of a million paper cuts.