You probably missed this little interchange down in the comments on an entry here several days ago about the Advertiser/Star-Bulletin consolidation.
It started with this comment from Wailau…
Your own blog has offered far better investigative coverage than either paper has been able to muster, and you’re just one conscientious guy with curiosity and a four-decades-long memory.
That drew a response from Shortsighted…
He’s also a guy that can afford to do essentially free journalism because 1) he has a lot of journalism experience working at the aforementioned newspaper institution and 2) he earned a good living and presumably is drawing a nice pension from that prior work.
And, finally, this from joeeddie…
If, as shortsighted believes, that the author of this blog is surviving on his Star-Bulletin pension, well, I’ll style shortsighted’s hair for a year.
Well, joeeddie doesn’t have to warm up his hair styling skills, because he’s certainly right about that Star-Bulletin pension.
Just to set the record straight, my years at the S-B earn me the princely sum of $346.35 per month.
What can I say? It’s certainly better than nothing, and I appreciate it. But it doesn’t a living make.
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Geez, that’s a lot of money!!! All I got from the SB was $900 for 9 Goddess Speaks columns.
I wonder if the Advertiser will pay the laid off staff a pension…
Not really the right place for this, but I wonder if anyone has spent much time reading the Hawaii Independent?
http://www.thehawaiiindependent.com/
That’s a pretty nice pension for 7 years of work … especially compared to the pensions current Bulletin workers make under Black (hint: no pension).
Would you give that $346 up Ian? That’s worth at least one investigative story a month, which is about what you provide. More important is the fact you had that good job during those years, which undoubtedly contributed to your long-term financial situation.
But the point is that bloggers like Ian can’t be expected to carry the journalism torch in the future, the best investigative bloggers nowadays were professional journalists in their former lives — those jobs are mostly history and in the future journalism will not be a very common career choice.
I couldn’t agree more with your main point:
“But the point is that bloggers like Ian can’t be expected to carry the journalism torch in the future, the best investigative bloggers nowadays were professional journalists in their former lives — those jobs are mostly history and in the future journalism will not be a very common career choice.”