Alan Mutter wants journalists to get paid a fair rate

By Michael Becker | Published: February 5, 2010

Quality journalism takes training, time and tenacity. Although it’s easy to fill space with words, pictures and videos that are produced quickly and on the cheap, down-and-dirty “journalism” is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories.

The more empty calories you consume, the unhealthier you get. It won’t be good for our democracy – let alone our self-esteem as journalists – if we attempt to nourish vital local, state and national conversations with the journalistic equivalent of Ding Dongs and McNuggets.

via newsosaur.blogspot.com

Cross-posted from my Posterous site at Becker's Online Journal

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