Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 16, 2023

At least he still has a job or two.

If you want more details/history, read Mike Peterson — Comic Strip of the Day — at the Daily Cartoonist web site.

Look for some of his archived columns — but the subject does come up from time to time.

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https://www.dailycartoonist.com/

Since most reporters don’t have any newspaper related jobs….

So, you work at a local weekly newspaper?

You can really see the loss of writer depth with the typos…………nowadays the reporter is often the editor as well.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

           Only this and nothing more.”

Is this a commentary on the death of printed journalism?

A healthy press and an appetite for the truth is essential to a democratic republic.

Happened to a friend of mine, while we were in college. Our small branch campus had a biweekly paper, and he joined because he was interested (his major was not journalism). Then the journalism department got a new Dean who removed the requirement that all journalism majors had to work on our newspaper – and they all quit, leaving my friend there all by himself.

He recruited a couple of us to help him out (none of us were journalists), but essentially he was doing the whole thing by himself. This was back in the early 1980s – already the journalism department felt that printed newspapers were dead and that only TV news was worth pursuing. They changed the journalism requirements from being able to find and write a story to looking good on camera and being able to read a teleprompter.