Layoff Chatter

 Over the past six months, I'd say that I've noticed at least twenty-odd newspapers, news magazines, and networks....on a layoff  'binge'.

The chief problem?  It's such an industry that is seen as toxic....that there is NO real recovery process possible.

Adding to the burden....once you get the layoff notice....then what?  No one is hiring.  Even if you are employed....the odds are that you are looking at a 10-year period of stalled pay-raises.

Continuing trend?  Well....if you have a newspaper or network with marginal public respect....the odds are that the layoff pattern will just continue on.

If you were in your second year of college and preparing for a journalism degree?  You might want to ask for some advice, and dump this field of study.  

How we got to this point?  I would suggest since the 1990s....the management of most news units have been compromised and turned mostly into propaganda units.  Even if you sat down with reporters from SF or LA....explaining that they need to ask demanding questions of city council folks or state authorities....most of the journalists would suggest that this is unfair journalism.  

Interesting trend....like the way that blacksmiths went....as cars evolved.