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    Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Hamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:40pm

    I just called my mom and said, “mom! Internet media is officially a realer job than newspapers!”

    She said, “I was napping, why did you wake me up and what’s internet media?”

    Now what do I do?

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      6/07/16 4:44pm

      Put a pillow over her face and press down while you whisper “Generation Y says hello.”

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      6/07/16 4:45pm

      But I’m generation X.

      Also, I’d have to leave town and drive 60 miles and I can’t drive.

      None of you people are giving me helpful advice!

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    FelixElixHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:44pm

    Does “Spending all day posting crap on Reddit/Gawker” count as Internet publishing?

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      Sparky PolastryFelixElix
      6/07/16 4:46pm

      Only if listed as references on a rental application.

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      Sarcastro4FelixElix
      6/07/16 4:46pm

      If it does, then I guess I’m one of those people working two jobs to make ends meet!

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    gramercypoliceHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:53pm

    Well, except you’d kind of have to combine ‘newspapers’ and ‘periodicals’ to have a fairer comparison, and then “online” would be somewhere around 100,000 jobs lower than that combination. Then again, as the Neiman piece notes, online-only publications are also starting to struggle, with BuzzFeed missing its revenue projections and cutting staff, among others.

    So, nobody can be feeling too cocksure about anything in this world except that all the really good-looking girls will go out with the guys from Camp Mohawk because they’ve got all the money. It just doesn’t matter.

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsgramercypolice
      6/07/16 5:00pm

      In my view, the major problem for the online space seems to be different though.

      The value, both as perceived and charged by sellers of ad space and the actual value to an advertiser, of online advertising seems to shift a lot more violently than print advertising did back in the halcyon days of print. Between new technology and our culture growing more web savvy, even though there has been on the whole tremendous growth in readership, it seems like it would be tough to peg how valuable your average block of loyal readers is.

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      oneweirdafternoongramercypolice
      6/07/16 5:24pm

      There’s something wrong with Tripper.

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    GrizzlyAdamsBeardHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:46pm

    I bet there are more garbage men than astronauts, but you never hear your neighbor brag about their garbage man son.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeGrizzlyAdamsBeard
      6/07/16 4:52pm

      Those guys start at same base salary but make a lot more after 5 years than the average blogger. Maybe I should have become a real trash man instead of a garbage person.

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      2k-jin╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      6/07/16 5:15pm

      According to Drumpf, he’s worth BILLIONS, so it does seem to pay to be a garbage person.

      But in all seriousness, one of my in-laws is a garbage man and with OT, he can make $100k. And if he doesn’t work OT, he’s home by 11AM.

      I WENT TO COLLEGE FOR NOTHING.

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    Hollow_LogHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:51pm

    My job is the real job now, MOM.

    Sure, but they’ll always have the newsboy caps.

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      Jerry-NetherlandHollow_Log
      6/07/16 5:25pm

      And snappy dialogue.

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      TeenageMutantKinjaJerry-Netherland
      6/07/16 6:57pm

      Hildy, one of the greatest celluloid dames

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    MattHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:44pm

    Suck on that, typesetters, you smug, ink-covered bastards!

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      IAmNotADamnWriterMatt
      6/07/16 4:50pm

      That’s “ink-stained wretch.”

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    6/07/16 4:46pm

    Yo momma’s press so old, she dated Johannes Gutenberg.

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      Johnny CrapHamilton Nolan
      6/07/16 8:03pm

      let’s juxtapose this graph with the employment graph.

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        ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
        6/07/16 4:48pm

        Wow, I wonder what happend in 2008 to cause such a deep decline? Oh,well, it’s a mystery for the ages.

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          Aqua-Impura╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
          6/08/16 8:26am

          Must be the same thing that forced all those people to work in online media from the comfort of their parents basement homes.

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        HoldenCashHamilton Nolan
        6/07/16 10:51pm

        Oh for fuck’s sake...

        “the internet” and “newspapers” are not mutually exclusive.

        “newspapers” in this context means “the company that writes news”

        *All newspapers are published online as well as on newsprint*

        I blame Marshal McCluen and his dumbass quotation for some of this...the rest is just people not thinking about what they are saying.

        The idea that “newspapers are dead” is ridiculous...we are at the peak of the information age and people are wanting more content than ever before!

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