I sometimes wish I had gone to school for journalism, but after reading this peice, I’m just as happy to work in IT.
Faced with plummeting advertising revenues, media organizations have slashed their staffs and operating budgets in the past couple of decades in pursuit of ever greater profits. One of the causalities have been foreign news bureaus. As a consequence, many outlets have turned increasingly to freelancers like Carroll. Compared to staff writers, they’re cheap.
This excellent peice then goes on to describe the process by which the modern, profit-driven media is creating sharecropper journalists in other portions of the world. He points out the hypocrisy with which the MSM reports on coal mining accidents, deriding coal mine owners for not having proper safety equipment while at the same time not providing even so much as health care to a large portion of thier own workforce, which is conveniently not employed directly.
Of course, there is little or nothing that we can do in this country to combat such tactics beyond attempting to shame the shameless.
