Jeff Jarvis: The days of "inflated paychecks" for journalists are over

I think what happens in situations like this is people think of the salaries of top columnists and assume that other newspaper folk are paid handsomely as well.

Personally, I think the top columnists should have been the second to get a pay cut (first going to the moronic CEOs and high end business folk who earn way more than they are worth). The pay disparity between a desker and a high-end columnist at the same paper is ridiculous, yet the columnist is only as good as he/she is because the desker spends 3 hours fixing the hot-shot's column so it's actually readable.

Ugh.

 

Answer: He's telling his billion-dollar bosses exactly what they want to hear. It's called sucking up.

 

This guy is a piece of work. No wonder he doesn't think fondly of journalists, because he doesn't seem interested in checking out facts. My dad worked for a metro newspaper all throughout my childhood, and we were by no means well off.

He worked long hours, missed important family events and, all because he thought (and was) doing a service for people in our community. This Jarvis is a fool, with few redeemable qualities as far as I can tell. When it comes to him, it's a shame, as they say, you can't buy class.

 

Obviously Mr. Jarvis never worked for the Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune. [/crossboarding]

 

It's been nearly a week, and he can still bite me.

 

Most of us knew full well, going in, that this is on balance the worst-paying profession, by plenty.

Don't need added abuse by being exposed to dribble spewed by pusfaces, on top of it.

 

I'm wondering if by inflated paychecks he meant the $23,400 I made at a 20,000 daily my first job or the $10 per hour under the table I made working on the side for a friend who was a contractor and was kind enough to give me 15 hours of work per week as a laborer, just so I could feed my family...... :

 

You think he's even AWARE of how you and all the rest of us started?
(Off-topic, zag, but TNT's running three vintage L&O's every Saturday morning between 8-11 EDT. Last week, there was the racist shotgun killer with James Earl Jones as his lawyer. And Ben Stone!)

 

Quinton Tarantino at the diner.

 

Here's the funny thing...

In person, Jeff is a pretty self-deprecating guy.

 

Deprecating is way down my list of what he can do to himself.

 

Maybe so . .. but he should have thought out how this would play with the broad
journo population before setting this down. Close cover before striking, and all that.

If he simply didn't give a shit . . . that's not to his credit. Not a little bit.