Mind you, my Reddit post was in response to a story about two cash-bloggers dropping dead, perhaps with the stress of churning out the pot boiler blog posts, so I claim that tragic deaths caused my temporary humour failure.

...paid writing has wrecked the publishing industry.

That is a snappy comeback. I'm impressed. On the other hand newspapers do seem to be dying and newspaper publishing is turning into a train wreck.

Some see the problem as direct competition from the blog-sphere, but I see something else. After you have been on the internet for long enough and been trolled on Usenet and /. the penny finally drops and you recognise modern journalism as basically trolling. OK it is not getting bites, but it is getting eyeballs for advertisers, sucking people in with the same old crap about how the dangerous new drug, alphabet soup, will cause terrorist to have sex with our children. So I see people wising up to the crapness of paid writing.

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