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aeolianblues · 3 months ago

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I know a friend who studied broadcast journalism at school. He does a music show like I do, volunteering. Isn't it lovely when media companies can decide that all of a sudden your careers were merely hobbies all along?

#context: Bell laying off 50% of their journalists this year company-wide #FIFTY PERCENT. HALF.#My friend was smart; never went into paid music journalism at all #kept a day job. Like I do. Sitting in them work calls as we speak #(realistically I'm going into one in five mins; I'm not mad to be on Tumblr mid-call)#he was in a band I think were absolutely fascinating and have been begging him to get the band back together whenever he says #that an old bandmate has suggested meeting up for a jam. PLEASE MAN BRING THEM BACK #but yeah I feel horrible for those journalists. Who else will hire them? All media is owned by TWO COMPANIES #one is letting go 50% of their staff. The other has locked down its careers page. What happens to journalism #and you know my field is still seen as the 'fun' and 'useless' journalism. People 'will live' without music journalists who cares about the #eventually there will be five of us left; all freelancing across every single media there is left.#Fuck new people; the last time to get into music journalism was 2007. If you got in before that congrats. Otherwise choose a new field #This one's full because one guy freelancing for 5 companies as their sole 'culture correspondent' needs to make his bread because he isn't #full time staff writing at any one publication :)#Forget all that for a minute. They cut ACTUAL NEWS journalists. 'Real' journalists. What chance in hell did the rest of us have?#rant

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