I couldn’t pick one:
- It’s money that I love
- Hard work pays off some day, sucking up pays off right now
- it might be obscurity but it pays well
- job security through obscurity
- will work for a better grade of crumbs
USATODAY.com – Conservatives tune in, drop out after college:
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Right-leaning folks wanted to grow young reporters, academics, artists and public servants who would change the culture, not just the campus. Instead, they’ve grown activists who enjoy campus politics, but flee to the business world or conservative institutions after graduation. Until someone convinces young conservatives to battle up the low-paid ladder of newspapers and other mainstream institutions, conservatives will see livelier campus debates and bake sales for their money — but not much cultural change.
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Despite this pampering, though, only a handful of CN alumni work for mainstream media such as USA TODAY or NBC Nightly News. The highest-profile alumni (including pundit Ann Coulter and National Review Editor Richard Lowry) write, almost solely, for conservative audiences. I call it “syndicated-columnist syndrome.” Turns out, once you experience the royal treatment as a reward for writing polemics in one-sided campus papers, you lose your taste for the tough investigative reporting that convinces unsympathetic editors and readers. You lose your taste for staking out school board meetings, covering police beats and taking other steps on the ladder mainstream reporters must master.Of the 100 young editors I met at the CN’s November conference in Chicago, only 10 wanted to go into journalism. Most in this handful wanted to talk with reporters from the conservative National Review and Weekly Standard to find out how.
They’ve discovered it’s more pleasant to achieve stardom for snappy commentaries than labor in obscurity as a city desk editor, or to garner praise and press at conservative think tanks than fight unfair tenure decisions at State U. Activists prefer to complain about liberal foundations than battle up their hierarchies, and they’d rather earn big bucks as corporate lawyers than become low-paid local judges who truly influence law.
via [World O’Crap]