Just one clarification to the young man’s report. I was very careful in my use of pronouns, something he was not. It should have been ‘we’ instead of ‘them,’ as in ‘Anyone can do OUR jobs.’

I’m as much a part of this ‘we’ as all the other hacks.

best
scott

“Journalism, with a capital J, needs to get to grips with the idea that what it does is not high art.”

Amen to that. Some (individuals and institutions) would have us believe that they are more important than life itself.