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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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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?