"What is black, white and read all over?" Jason Jones of "The Daily Show" asked editor Bill Keller. "A newspaper?" Keller asked. Jones replied, "No, your balance sheet. Ha-ha!" Keller wasn't exactly laughing.
Jones found it funny, though -- as I've noticed many blogs doing lately -- to mercilessly mock the decline of newspapers. He giggled as he picked up an actual telephone -- a landline! -- like it was a novelty and snickered about his perceived lack of worth of news printed on actual paper. Thanks, asshole! I just got a degree in journalism. Not only do I want to drive over his face with a riding lawnmower but after watching movies like "Meet John Doe" and "His Girl Friday," I want to equip my Saturn with a flux capacitor, step on the gas and find a way to prevent the advent of the Internet. Yes, I realize that I am writing on the Internet now, but a world without newspapers seems so bleak and horrible. It's like imagining consuming all of our food in pill form. Ugghhhh.
When it comes to pay, however, not all that much has changed. I did find it quaint when, in "Meet John Doe," Barbara Stanwyck's columnist gets paid $30 a week. I make $25 for my column.
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