Thinning of the ranks
Keith in a mood
The Ngsty One, or Keith as he’s also known, is going away to work at the Prime Minister’s office. Before that, Peter Griffin, the Herald’s prolific tech writer and tech editor, gave up on churning out the words and disappeared off to the Science Media Centre.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems good journos are dropping out of the media biz well before they reach the Old Farts stage. Who can blame them though? Working as a low-salaried drone in a republishing factory isn’t what most people setting out on a journalistic career had in mind.
Guess PR trolls will have to start pitching stories at one another soon, as there’s not much life left in the media corpose after years of hack’n’slash management. No, I don’t think blogs will make for an adequate replacement, for a variety of rather obvious reasons.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
But that’s what blogs are for! Clearly MSM has no interest in keeping staff on to write about ICT/Science/News so it’s off to the blogosphere for us all.
cheers
Paul