The dismantling of newsrooms made it impossible for most reporting jobs to be sustainable. It was done in a targeted and purposeful fashion, and forced many of our best reporters and writers to work for the companies they would have been investigating.
Reposted from Mike Baker
The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

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