It has not been a good month for journalists in legacy media. As RedState reported, The Los Angeles Times recently slashed its newsroom by around 25 percent. That came after employees had the brilliant idea of striking despite having no leverage and the paper bleeding money. One can live in a fantasy world, but they will still face real-world consequences.
READ: The L.A. Times Appears to Be in a State of Imminent Collapse
That’s just a small part of the overall collapse, though. In total, it is estimated that over 2800 jobs were lost in the journalism industry in 2023 alone.
An estimated 2,681 news industry jobs were lost through the end of November 2023, more than in the full years of 2022 and 2021. https://t.co/DjBdLxXWV9
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) January 24, 2024
In response to so many journalists getting canned, other journalists have sought to assure everyone that the…
