Finally the answer: Why Journalists deserve low pay

Presentation by Robert G. Picard to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism,
RISJ Seminar Series, University of Oxford, May 6, 2009:

http://www.robertpicard.net/PDFFiles/whyjournalistsdeservelowpay.pdf

 

Are we sure Robert G. Picard isn't really Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D from Dead Poets Society, charting the importance of journalism on a graph in a textbook?

 

i read the first few sentences, concluded he sounded like an ass, and stopped reading.

 

Ditto.

 

This English dick needs his ass kicked.
And that's all I'm going to say about him.

 

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This is what I'd like to do to that English sap.

 

Can somebody who actually read it give me the nut graph?

 

Basically, he's saying we're like a bunch of interchangeable workers on an assembly line ...

 

At many places, that is true: Call up the day's budget, draw a few boxes, put a few headlines on, change a couple of commas, send a version to the web and typeset the page. But at better shops, the depth and breadth of information is respected and has meaning, and it has needed a group of trained and compensated professionals to produce. Now, if everyone becomes OK with 140-count messages passing as journalism, then I suppose the pay scale would be downsized accordingly.