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Crazy business... in all seriousness though, I really hope they manage to keep their jobs. My experience, though, has been that Northcliffe are pretty unscrupulous in their dealings with their reporters. They seem to have a terrible reputation in terms of the amount they pay their journalists (ie, around £10,000pa for a rookie, rising to approximately £14,000 at the end of the two-year training period), and this in an industry which is notorious for crappy wages.

It's always been my perception that people assume journalists earn a fortune...

Sounds like Northcliffe is a lot like Gannett

If they had usefull skills, like say landscaping, I might be interested in buying them.

I could use someone to proofread my posts, but £22 is more than it's worth to me.

Just to clarify... journalism is not a useful skill?

Apparently not very useful, after all they are being auctioned off because no one else wants them.

it's 22 pounds PLUS their current salary... :) and you'd probably have to pay 'em benefits too..

well, it depends on who's doing the journalin'. i'd say most journalists these days prove themselves quite the opposite of useful.

I saw an interview of Bill Moyers
(formerly of PBS NOW)
When asked why the media is no longer
doing hardcore investigative journalism.
One of the reasons is exactly this...
Journalism is not profitable,
Entertainment is.....
Major media outlets are downsizing News departmentments.
And movings resources to profitable enterprises.
If this crew wants a job
They will need to sell out and, flaunt "fluff" as news
or take a pay cut. sadly

How do you know they are not already a fluff news unit?

You could be right :lol:
Did you see the picture on ebay?
They are demonstrating their loyality to
their paper by protesting job cuts :confused:
the owner of the paper is cutting jobs....or.....
http://i24.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/b0/3a/e2_1_b.JPG

the bid is up to £34

It's not the paper that's cutting them loose though, it's the publisher, Northcliffe. It's a large media company that owns a big portfolio of regional news titles all across the UK. That's who they're protesting.

And, Ustwo, the Western Daily Press is a very reputable regional newspaper. These aren't 'fluff' reporters, they're seasoned, skilled, senior staff members.

The fact is that newspapers are in a downward spiral. Not sure if it's the case in the states, but here average circulations are dropping. That's why we're seeing national newspapers trying to pull readers in by giving away free DVDs every week. News just doesn't pull people in anymore. Editorial is not the core of a newspaper's business, despite it being called a 'news'-paper. I'd be surprised if their ad sales reps have had their jobs under threat.

If they can't shovel snow, they are no good to me.

There's no point in debating with Ustwo. He's got preconceived opinions about everything, just about all of those opinions are wrong, but no amount of logic is going to convince him of it.

I do enjoy the fact, however, that so many in this thread are disparaging the journalists when 1) it's journalism that maintains a free country, and 2) it's not the journalists making the fluff news decisions, it's the corporate parents of the media outlets. And the fact that corporations are allowed to own so many media outlets can be traced to deregulation, which was Reagan's baby. So, Ustwo, if you really don't like the state of journalism in this country you can thank Reagan for being a big contributor to the problem.

Ummmm you know, speaking of logic, where did I disparage journalists in any of the above or did you use your preconceptions to decide my point of view? :lol:

Perhaps you need some basic reading comprehension primers before going off on a political tangent that does not need to exist in this thread.