Do You Think the Commercial Media Is Corrupt? Unfair? Biased?

[MineralMan]

48. Well, that's true, at least in part.

After getting my degree in English and deciding to write for a living, I applied for a job at a regional newspaper. They offered to hire me as a reporter, based on writing samples, but at a salary that was so low that I took a job working a lube rack and tire bay for the local county government's vehicle maintenance garage. It paid twice as much.

While I did that job, I started working on developing a writing career as a freelance journalist. It took a couple of years before I was earning enough to quit being a grease monkey, and a couple of more years before I was making a good living writing for major magazines.

Entry level jobs in the print media business are not attractive. They just aren't. I didn't investigate working for the local TV station, though, so I don't know what they paid entry-level news writers.