Journalists face harassment, fight against misinformation and are keenly aware of the industry's financial troubles and the dim view many Americans have of them.
Despite all that, most love their jobs and wouldn't trade it for something else.
Those were among the findings in a survey of nearly 12,000 journalists
conducted by the Pew Research Center and released on Tuesday. (AP)
If ya like just what you're doin' and you do not give a
hoot
if you are tarred and feathered and stripped down to union suit;
if insults hurled like baseballs and the frequent verbal bomb
thrown at you don't matter -- cuz you got so much aplomb;
and the money that you're making would insult a galley slave --
well, you either are a lunatic or some reporter brave!
The glamor and the glory of that kind of work has waned.
Reporters work for companies completely addlebrained.
Their job might vanish any time; their beat no longer trod --
snubbed by hedge fund managers who think that they are God.
And yet, and yet, these foolish wags, these men and women brisk,
tell each other they enjoy this kind of work and risk.
I don't know that I cotton to their self-delusion grand --
reminding me of Moses going to the Promised Land.
And, really, I ain't never seen such folk who do subsist
on pain and pandemonium -- each one's a masochist!
But one man's meat or poison, as the Good Book says somewhere,
can make the meanest scribbler feel awful debonair.
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