[pessimizer]

Yes. Journalists don't make a living from journalism, they live on family money. That's why working class journalists have disappeared along with working class perspectives.

It was once a job where many if not most of the practitioners didn't have a college degree, now it is the most expensive graduate school program you can do. I think the median price is something like $250K.

If you don't pay writers, you eliminate all of the writers who have to work for a living.

[watwut]

Plenty of journalists I know about (because I read them a lot and they sometimes talk about self) did mot wemt to j-school.

Also, they dont live in parents houses.

You are making stuff up about lives of journalistals to invalidate their claims.

[ghaff]

Don't disagree with the general point but I'm not sure J-School was ever a particularly good entree into journalism. Most of the journalists I know and knew didn't have the grad degree.

[NicuCalcea]

TIL I and my friends and colleagues live on family money.

[Jensson]

Could be a husband that pays for the home etc as well, that is also living on family money.

Regardless since journalists aren't well paid but a lot of them live in expensive areas the money has to come from somewhere.

[NicuCalcea]

So your argument is that journalists must be wealthy because otherwise they'd be poor? Have you considered the alternative, that we just live modest lifestyles, like most other working class people?