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The Recruiter responds: Is Journalism Dead?


The answer is here courtesy of Poynter Online’s regular Ask the Recruiter feature.

It’s a wise answer, but it’s also the kind of answer that I often wonder, Why can’t people who are in the business answer these questions for themselves?

That may sound snarky, but when I was in law school, and a few years older than most of my classmates, and I would hear the ones just out of college talk about how they would be making a million a year by the time they were 25, O.M.G.

Hello?

And they would hear stories about the alcoholism, the bad relationships, the long hours, the not getting any vacation, the big houses thst sit empty – and they all thought, That won’t be me.

And then, how many of my classmates could I tell you about, 15 years later (this year) who aren’t making a million, don’t have healthy marriages, didn’t have kids, and are no longer in law?

I learned a long time ago that intelligence and ignorance are almost mutually exclusive – that is, they don’t intersect to the extent that they can cure one or the other. And this inability to recognize what doesn’t lead from point A to point B infuriated me.

So, when I read that question to the recruiter today, I thought, That’s a great question that someone just starting out would ask.

But I still can’t understand how such a person wouldn’t be able to observe, since he’s in the news business already, just how obvious the answer was.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:18 am September 7th, 2007 in Politics 

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One Response to “The Recruiter responds: Is Journalism Dead?”

  1. 1 Wendy Hoke on September 7th, 2007 9:08 am

    I particularly like his admonition “adapt to survive.”

    You learn that fairly quickly as an independent.

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