it keeps the news flowing at quiet times, like summer, with desk-chained hacks slightly re-writing the same old hackneyed shit written by people who are much less talented yet better paid than they are.
From a post on The enemies of reason about churnalism in the media and how the summer especially seems to be an endless flow of rewritten (if we’re lucky) press releases on inane subjects.
It’s true when it speaks of PR people being overpaid in comparison to the journalists who get their material out to a wider audience. I’m only 24, yet I already know of a few people who have left journalism behind in favour of a better salary in PR.
I’m sort of a hypocrite on that front, as I was a business journalist who got poached/saw the light and crossed over the fence to work in the industry that I used to write about.
But at least I’m not in PR.