You Are Expendable

Journalism is unlike any other industry--high powered, pressured, and probably one of the most competitive, cut throat jobs any single person can take on.

Case in point--the pure turn over of the industry is mind-boggling. You are merely a replaceable part in a giant wheel that continues to turn out news 24 hours a day. As things like blogging take off and newspaper readership's decline, the media industry itself will only continue to cut into journalists bottom line and downsize bureaus and force people to work more hours for less pay. Its a vicious cycle in a dieing industry.