Friday, March 13, 2009

You people can't lose your jobs fast enough to suit me.

The 20,000 journalism jobs lost in the past 18 months are flushing knowledge and experience out of American newsrooms, diminishing our lives and our democracy. The brain drain is exacting penalties that society may live to regret.

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Veteran journalists are being pushed aside for beginning reporters without watchdog experience.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-wild-and-margaret-engel/the-demise-of-investigati_b_174438.html


Watchdog. That's rich.