I found these lead off sentences particularly funny (not to mention dead-on accurate) “Be forwarned, youngsters: the magazine industry has no room for you any more. Also, it can’t find you! You’re all out there working on the blogs and not learning how to do real journalism. Which makes you suck! “These people don’t leave their fucking laptops,” says elderly writer Gay Talese.”

This Gawker article via way of the Observer goes on to contend that younger people who work for print magazines are either past their peak in the industry, only to move on to bigger and better opportunities, or become jaded toward the industry altogether. This leaves the older magazine journalists who (god bless ‘em) are just plain out of touch with the relevance of modern topics that the few remaining magazine connoisseurs are interested in.

I continuing reading and something quickly becomes evident as the tone of the piece transforms: magazine journalism in one high paying gig, if you can land a position with a particularly high-paying and established glossy. How does $2/word sit with you? I’ll tell you it beats .05 any day!